In the old days, people didn’t know much about the sky or the land at the bottom of the Earth. But there were some brave folks who decided to find out more, and they found some amazing things. Finding Uranus … Read More
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within its star’s habitable zone. The discovery suggests that liquid water could exist on the rocky world’s surface, possibly forming a global ocean. The discovery, made with … Read More
For the first time, astronomers have observed a white dwarf star ‘switching on and off’ in less than 30 minutes. The researchers, led by Durham University in the United Kingdom, announced on October 18 that they used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet … Read More
Galaxies exchange matter with their external environment thanks to galactic winds. For the first time, the MUSE instrument from the Very Large Telescope has mapped the galactic wind that drives these exchanges between galaxies and nebulae. This discovery led to … Read More
A team of researchers has accidentally found two galaxies that were hidden from view sitting at the edge of space and time. Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer at the Research Institute for Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan, and the … Read More
NASA’s NICER instrument reveals that neutron stars are not as simple as we thought. Pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe. These tiny, compact objects are neutron stars — the remnants of once-massive stars — that spin rapidly, beaming radiation … Read More