Tag: Astronomy
4 Planets in Our Solar System You’ve Probably Never Heard Of...
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets is going to be getting a whole lot longer....
Now Anyone Can Hunt For Exoplanets
Git yourself to GitHub and start searching for homes-away from home!
Scientists Now Know When the First Stars Formed in the Universe
Happy birthday! Suns are now known to have been 'born' 180 million years after the Big Bang.
A Second Super Earth Spotted 111 Light-Years Away
A "warm" super-Earth has been discovered orbiting a red dwarf. Seven and a half times the Earth's mass, it could support life.
Mystery molecules in black hole winds may have been born there
New molecules may be condensing out of Black Hole winds.
Amateur Astronomer Spots Supernova Right as It Begins
Proof that the art of simply observing can bring tremendous rewards.
Detailed image of red giant confirms theory about massive stars
Observations of π1 Gruis a red giant 530 light years away, are confirming theories about the evolution of stars.
For the first time, scientists discover exoplanets in a galaxy far,...
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Obervatory may have located the Empire!
Dark Matter May Be a Product of Gravitational Waves with a...
Scientists advance a new theory that may explain the origin of 80% of the matter in the universe
Here’s a new plan for finding life on other planets –...
When searching for exo life, and old SF expression turns out to have been prophetic: "Watch the skies!!"
The new ESPRESSO four-in-one telescope is a next-generation planet hunter
Aptly named, the ESPRESSO telescope caffinates exo-planet searches
NASA’s Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image...
Gravitational lensing reveals the most distant galaxy - 13.3 Billion light years from Earth
Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Exoplanet
Machine learning technology helps NASA locate a planetary system with as many planets as our own.
Dark Energy Survey Spots “Stellar Streams” From Another Galaxy
Dark energy from other galaxies is invading the Milky Way
This planet-eating star consumes its ‘offspring’ – Futurity
RZ Piscium - eater of worlds. A star in the constellation Pisces provides a view into early planetary formation,
NASA Is Testing the Telescope That Will Revolutionize Our View of...
The James Webb Space Telescope is getting ready to fly
Gravity Waves Are Responsible for Jupiter’s Jet Stream Reversals
Gravity made me do it: Jupiter explains its jet stream reversal
Black holes aren’t as strong as we thought – Futurity
Black Holes may not be as strong as once thought - but get too near one and it hardly matters
Almost Two Years Later, We Still Don’t Know if Planet Nine...
The search for Planet Nine (or ten, if astronomers change their minds again) continues
Our solar system may have formed inside a giant space bubble
Prior theories suggest the solar system formed as the result of a nearby supernova. A new theory suggests something quite different.
Quasar at edge of cosmic dawn is most distant yet –...
13.1 BILLION year old Super Massive Black Hole discovered
Earth Resides in Oddball Solar System, Alien Worlds Show
The Fermi Paradox Resolved: Solar System's Mother dresses it funny!
Astronomers may be closing in on source of mysterious fast radio...
It could be a message saying "don't send silk worms to the Moon!". Most likely it's a natural phenom, but for now, investigators aren't ruling anything, including alien spaceships, out.
Multi-planet System Found Through Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing project identifies extra solar planets. You can play too!
Incredibly creepy skull-shaped asteroid is going to cruise by Earth next...
That creepy, skull-faced asteroid is heading back towards Earth
7 of The Most Epic Space Events You Should Get Ready...
2018 will offer these exciting sky shows, most visible the world over
The Universe May Be Full of Habitable Worlds That Have No...
The Universe May Be Full of Habitable Worlds That Have No Sun
January will bring two supermoons, a blue moon, and a total...
Jannuary 1: a super blood moon. January 31: a Blue Moon and a lunar eclipse.
News | Mars Mission Sheds Light on Habitability of Distant Planets
How long would an exo-planet remain habitable?
NASA Invests in Concept Development for Missions to Comet, Saturn Moon
Plans for Titan and comet missions