Wausau Pilot & Review The night sky this week rewards patience, darkness and careful timing. A rare stretch of moonless ...
The first solar eclipse of the year is almost here, but very few people will see it. Tuesday’s annular solar eclipse, known ...
A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
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 ...
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...
A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.
The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.
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 ...
A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, was recently discovered lurking beneath Venus.
The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.