Astronomers using the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed a protoplanetary...
Using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRC2) on the Keck II telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, astronomers have directly imaged two infant...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a close-in super-Earth exoplanet in the HD 164922 planetary system.
An artist’s impression of the...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have detected pulsation patterns in the so-called Delta Scuti stars, a large group...
Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star or a brown dwarf around 7,580 parsecs (24,723 light-years) from Earth.
An artist’s...
Astronomers using the Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph (FEROS) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory have found a...
A team of astrobiologists from the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University has developed a spectral field guide for Earth-like exoplanets transiting...
Magnetic activity on the Sun leads to solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other space weather that affects Earth. Similar activity on other stars...
Astronomers using the PIONIER (Precision Integrated-Optics Near-infrared Imaging ExpeRiment) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer...
Professor Andrew King from the University of Leicester has shown that periodic X-ray eruptions from a galaxy called GSN 069 could result from the core...
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used the telescope to take a portrait of the giant...
Comets spend most of their lives at large distances from any star, during which time their interior compositions remain relatively unaltered. Cometary...
Clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting stars in outer halos of Milky Way-mass galaxies, according to new research...
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a low-mass star called Kepler-1649.
An...
A nova is a sudden, short-lived brightening of an otherwise inconspicuous star. It occurs when a stream of hydrogen from a companion star flows onto the...
An international team of astronomers has detected the brightest and most energetic known supernova: SN 2016aps.
An artist’s illustration of a supernova....
A due of researchers used numerical simulations to show that interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua, a fast moving, cigar-shaped object of extrasolar origin...
Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic explosions in the Universe, beaming out huge jets of light-emitting plasma, which travel through space at 0.99...
