Astronomy

ESA Photo ReleaseThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has once again captured comet 2I/Borisov streaking through our solar system on...

Scientists working together at the University of Cambridge have released the results from what is the largest-scale study of...

It's been a wild decade – I will spare you my political meanderings and further speculation that humanity will soon be wiped from...

Somehow, a planet survived the devastating explosion of a star's death, and the scorching white dwarf star that remains is now...

The second interstellar visitor to our solar system is closing in on the Sun, according to reports from Universe Today. Comet...

The last time the Alpha Monocerotids meteor showers were seen was 1995 – right in the middle of what some of us at Outer Places...

It seems like the stuff of science fiction to see huge planets wheeling across the sky, but that’s exactly what amateur astronomer...

Five million years ago the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy ejected a bright blue star – now, it’s 29,000...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument – or DESI for short – is, as Emperor Palpatine so aptly put it, “fully armed and...

ESO Photo ReleaseAstronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea...

ESA/Hubble Photo ReleaseCredit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington) In celebration of...

Scientists discovered a vein of heavy elements in the wreckage left behind a cataclysmic neutron star merger and finally revealing how...

Astronomers at the University of California Los Angeles have reverse-engineered a genius way to determine what the cores of exoplanets...

So maybe you missed the Draconid and Taurid meteor showers earlier this month. Maybe you read our coverage too late. Maybe it was too...

Photo release via ESA/HubbleOn 12 October 2019, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provided astronomers with their best look yet at...

October is a fantastic month: the summer heat finally begins to give way to more moderate temperatures, the leaves turn, and the...

A research team of astronomers reports evidence of a Seyfert energy flare decimating the Milky Way galaxy some 3.5 million years ago,...

Scientists have long hypothesized that there is a network of invisible gas filaments bridging light-years across the universe,...

ESO Science ReleaseAstronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time observed that a fast radio burst passed...

An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that is the second-ever interstellar visitor to our solar system, according to...