200 light-years away from Earth, there's a K-type main-sequence star named TOI (TESS Object of Interest) 178. When Adrian Leleu,…
It looks like we may have to update our theories on how stars and planets form in new solar systems.…
Scientists are getting better at understanding exoplanets. We now know that they're plentiful, and that they can even orbit dead…
The mysterious world Europa, the ice-covered second moon of Jupiter, sports deep scars that cut across its face. An international…
Over the next decade, several very powerful telescopes will come online. Observing time on these 'scopes will be in high…
Astronomers like to observe young planets forming in circumstellar debris disks, the rotating rings of material around young stars. But…
A year on Uranus lasts almost as long as a century on Earth. And because of its extreme tilt, its…
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Carolyn Collins Petersen (thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter ) Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )…
Rogue stars are moving so quickly they’re leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. How in the Universe could…
Have you ever noticed that everything in space is a sphere? The Sun, the Earth, the Moon and the other…