In a new survey, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have managed to pinpoint the location of several Fast Radio…
We thought we understood how stars are formed. It turns out, we don't. Not completely, anyway. A new study, recently…
A red-dwarf star called Gliese 1132 or GJ 1132 for short (astronomers and their fun nicknames!) smolders on some 41…
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope just received a new infrared filter that will allow it to explore even more of…
Jupiter is notorious for capturing objects that venture too close to the gas giant and its enormous pull of gravity.…
It’s relatively rare for a magical object from fantasy stories to have a analog in real life. A truly functional…
Storms on Neptune seem to follow a pattern of forming, strengthening and then dissipating over the course of about two…
A very rare astronomical phenomenon has been in the headlines a lot recently, and for good reason. It will be…
We use the term 'supermassive black hole' with a kind of casual familiarity. But stop and think about what they…
New research using Hubble archive data shows that GJ 887, the nearby red dwarf star system with two exoplanets, might…