Missing water mystery solved by comprehensive comparative study of exoplanets

A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has enabled scien…

The newly found 'protoplanet' is 450 light years away, but observing how it collects matter and grows could answer some of the biggest questions concerning how our solar system formed.

The planet is forming in a transition disk, a doughnut-like ring of dust and rocky debris orbiting its parent star, LkCa…

It’s widely believed that the moon features networks of caves created when violent lava flows tore under the surface fro…

The discovery of a tiny new super stormy star could have major implications for the search for habitable planets outside…

A black hole tore apart a star that got too close and a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes captured the action. This clos…

Astronomers have made a significant step toward confirming a proposed explanation for how solar flares accelerate charge…

New research has revealed that the thick donut-shaped disks of gas and dust that surround most massive black holes in th…

Radio astronomers present the Effelsberg-Bonn HI-Survey

Hydrogen is THE ELEMENT of the universe. Consisting of a single proton and an electron it is the simplest and most abund…

MAGIC telescopes measure gamma radiation from a remote galaxy

For the first time, scientists have observed gamma radiation from a well-known distant galaxy. In the center of the acti…

After studying why the universe did not collapse during its birth, researchers are closer to finding a missing piece in…

Signal Identified by Carnegie Mellon’s Hsiu-Hsien Lin Sheds New Light on Origin of Enigmatic Radio Waves

Fast Radio Bursts, brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves from the distant universe, have baffled astronome…

Such planets are of interest because in its youth, our own solar system may have had planets that were kicked out of the…

Though likely uninhabitable, planet is rocky, Earth-sized, and near enough for study of its atmosphere.

The new planet, named GJ 1132b, is Earth-sized and rocky, orbiting a small star located a mere 39 light-years from Earth…

The system could be configured to provide energy to other spacecraft or for application of the delivered energy to maxim…

Scientists have catalogued nearly 2,000 exoplanets around stars near and far. While most of these are giant and inhospit…

The Cassini space probe has detected unusually strong shock waves near Saturn, similar to those driven by supernovae.

An international research team led by Yale University postdoctoral researcher Hakim Atek recently discovered more than 2…

One hundred years since Einstein proposed gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity, an 11-year se…

A study of spiral galaxies seen edge-on has revealed that halos of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the

Astronomers have discovered a rare beast of a galaxy cluster whose heart is bursting with new stars. The unexpected find…