In an ambitious new proposal, scientists suggest that humanity could soon turn the Sun into a colossal telescope, allowing us ...
Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.
A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS 1903 is an ancient star, around seven billion years old, and only has about ...
Launched in 2019, the ESA mission will measure the size and density of hundreds of known exoplanets orbiting bright stars.
Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...
Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...