Over the last few years, the term “Goldilocks Zone” has become widely used to describe the range of distances from a star where planets would …

In 2007 astronomers discovered a strange event in data obtained using the 63m radio telescope at Parkes, Australia. It was a pulse of cosmic r…

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star lying about 40.7 light-years away. It is of particular interest because it has seven earth-like planets orbitin…

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed by the earth en …

Once again the James Webb Space Telescope has come up with a stunning and intriguing image. Taken with some major cosmic help, it shows one of…