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…
A new study offers a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, findings that are an exciting step toward understanding the deve…
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…
Black holes are good candidates for being the weirdest things in nature. There are lots of them out there; some of them are the remains of gia…