Astronomy

An international group of researchers led by a team at the University of Geneva have found an exoplanet with an atmosphere that is...

They may not have had WiFi or indoor plumbing, but our cave dwelling ancestors were smarter and much more advanced than some people...

Despite millions of light-years between us and most exoplanets, we're not only getting better at spotting them, we're now able to...

Over the past year or so, different scientific studies have argued that so-called 'rogue planets' (ie, planets without a star to...

A 'dark matter hurricane' sounds like something out of a comic book, but it's nevertheless real (as far as we know--dark matter is a...

Few things are more powerful, cataclysmic, or vast than a merger between supermassive black holes, but galactic mergers are one of...

If there are galactic archaeologists, what about stellar homicide detectives? Scientists recently spotted a star called CPD 64°2731...

Science Alert reports a team of astronomers have discovered a little star in the Milky Way Galaxy believed to be around 13.5 billion...

Just when we thought the question was settled for good, here we are again: discussing whether the tumbling, cigar-shaped object known...

Two new studies (found here and here) have found compelling evidence for the existence of 'dust moons' called Kordylewski dust...

There are some awesome job titles out there, like "Digital Prophet" and "Dean of Pizza, but "galactic archaeologist" probably takes...

One thing many people don't understand about astronomy is that you can learn as much from what you can't see as what you can. Black...

Back in September, a team of astronomers spotted an Earth-sized chunk of matter falling into a black hole at 30% the speed of light....

When we're not narrowly avoiding collisions with them or planning to blow them up with nuclear weapons, scientists are busy studying...

We've said this before, but we'll say it again: black holes are weird. Stephen Hawking once thought they were gateways to another...

Between 4,200 and 5,500 light years away from Earth in the constellation Scorpius lies a nebula with a familiar shape for those who...

After checking to make sure that it is plugged in and receiving power, one of the first steps in electronics troubleshooting is to...

The naming of constellations is serious business. The ones you're probably most familiar with like the Big Dipper, Sagittarius, and...

Using the VIMOS instrument (VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph) on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of...

It must be hard to be an astronomer or astrophysicist--every week, a new discovery (like Swift J0243.6+6124) seems to challenge their...