A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our Solar System – one that stores large amounts of sulphur deep within a
A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our Solar System – one that stores large amounts of sulphur deep within a
A strange lack of stellar orbits around the core of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) mystified astronomers for decades. Not only that, but the SMC has a strange, irregular shape,
In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule.
The strength of indirect detection signals from an Earth-like exoplanet as a function of stellar effective temperature. Bands encompassing main sequence spectral classes A through M color coded by temperature
Astrochemistry Status Report astro-ph.GA March 18, 2026 (Left) Depiction of the hemibonded CN radical adsorbed on a 14 H2O cluster. (Right, Top) Parallel geometries for the approach of C2H2 and
Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as “failed stars” for their inability to sustain nuclear fusion at their cores. The mass of these objects
The Earth is under assault. Space rocks are constantly hurtling toward us, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight and alarm.






