The exoplanet HR8799e isn’t a new discovery. It was first discovered in 2010 orbiting a young main-sequence star (a star... Read More
The aptly named telescope captured the first confirmed image of a planet coming together. A young dwarf star, named PDS... Read More
It’s big enough you could toss Earth in there and still have a little room. Located in the thin high-altitude... Read More
4.37 light-years away lies the Alpha Centauri system. What lurks near our closest stellar neighbor? A big announcement last August... Read More
There’s a new headache for astronomers wanting to image Earth-like planets. Exozodiacal light. This phenomenon is similar to the one... Read More
Nearly 1,300 light years away from Earth lies CG4, better known as the ‘Mouth of the Beast’ and sometimes ‘God’s... Read More
700 million years from now, two white dwarf stars will merge and create a massive supernova explosion. Read More
Peering deep into the cosmos with the Very Large Telescope’s X-shooter instrument, astronomers have observed one of the youngest and... Read More
We’ve known water was on Mars in the past, but how much exactly was there? Fresh NASA research suggests Mars... Read More
The Pillars of Creation is one of the most famous photographs ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The feature... Read More
A binary black hole, or a single giant star. Those are the two options that await a pair of stars... Read More
Meet AR Scorpii, a star system located about 380 light-years from Earth. It’s a binary star system made up of... Read More