The Gravitational Microlensing method relies on rare events (one star passing in front of another) to focus light and search for exoplanets.

Located in the Coma Berenices constellation, roughly 24 million light years from Earth, is the spiral galaxy known as Messier 64 (aka. The Black Eye Galaxy).

Happy New Year 2018. One of the toughest choices we made last year was to not write a full astronomical guide for 2018. We've done this in one iteration or another now for about a decade, but an ongoing project (also astronomical in nature) has consumed most of our writing hours... but we recently realized that we can still take stock in what's in the sky for the year ahead... and give you a sneak peek at part of our project for the end of 2018.

In preparation for the inaugural launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX recently released pictures of Musk's Tesla Roadster being loaded aboard the rocket's payload fairing.

Looking to the center of our galaxy, astronomers noted the presence of a mysterious filament extending from the supermassive black hole located there.

According to a recent study, multi-celled lifeforms lived on Earth as early as 3.5 billion years ago - a good indication that life exists elsewhere in the Universe.

The Radial Velocity (aka. Doppler Spectroscopy) Method relies on measurements of a planet's "wobble" to determine the presence of one or more planets around it.

NASA has chosen the Dragonfly mission concept as a finalist in its New Frontiers program. The double-quadcopter drone is designed to explore Titan and study habitability.

A mew study by a team of exoplanet scientists has revealed what kinds of planets are likely to lurk around Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own.

A new study by an international team of researchers has suggested that Mars formed farther from the Sun than previously thought.

A new study of a well-known exoplanet has revealed something very strange. Apparently, the planet orbits its star from pole to pole.

According to a new study, the recent merger of two neutron stars (which was detected thanks to the gravitational waves it created) most likely led to the creation of a black hole.

A research team recently applied a Google "neural net" to Kepler data, which conformed the existence of a star system with eight planets.