Astrophysicists researching the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star HL Tauri discover revealing substructures within the disc that have never been seen before.
Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet’s largest canyon system.
Astronomers are revealing that they have found strong evidence of water clouds detected on a body outside of the solar system during the same week NASA celebrated the entry of their JUNO spacecraft into Jupiter’s orbit.
About 250 million light-years away, there’s a neighborhood of our universe that astronomers had considered quiet and unremarkable. But now, scientists have uncovered an enormous, bizarre galaxy possibly formed from the parts of other galaxies.
‘This is a system for which I would not want to design a calendar’
Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of the coldest known object outside of our solar system
Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died.
Astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other ever found, one that loops widely around one star that is locked in a gravitational embrace with two others in a triple-star system, creating a curious celestial ballet.
RemoveDebris operation will test a range of devices, including nets and harpoons, designed to sweep up litter orbiting Earth
Astrobiologists think Titan’s unique atmosphere might be able to hold and sustain life.
