The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (aptly nicknamed CUTE) is a new, NASA-funded mission that aims to study the atmospheres of…
Researchers at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics published a paper last week that just might explain a mysterious…
The molecule hydroxyl (HO) is common on Earth, but astronomers have not yet determined how abundant it is on other…
The search for exoplanets has revealed types of planets that are nothing like the worlds in our own Solar System.…
The recent discovery of a very young gas giant could offer clues about how "Hot Jupiters" form and whether or…
Thanks to the success of the Kepler mission, we know that there are multitudes of exoplanets of a type called…
Imagine a planet where it rained iron. Sounds impossible. But on one distant exoplanet, which is tidally locked to its…
The CHEOPS spacecraft is taking the first tentative steps in its mission. Back on January 29th, the spacecraft opened the…
How can two planets so similar in some respects have such different densities? According to a new study, a catastrophic…
They say there's more than one way to skin an interstellar cat, and in astronomy there's more than one way…