Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and thanks to the Kepler mission, we can…
Zooniverse — the renowned home of citizen science projects — is now one million strong. That’s one million registered volunteers…
Astronomers constantly probe the skies for the unexpected. They search for unforeseen bumps in their data — signaling an unknown…
While exoplanets make the news on an almost daily basis, one of the biggest announcements occurred in 2012 when astronomers…
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Alien planets that are slightly bigger than Earth could be more life-friendly than exoplanets closer to our own size, a new study…
Binary star systems are downright dangerous due to their complex gravitational interactions that can easily grind a planet to pieces.…
By now, you will probably have heard that astronomers have produced the first global weather map for a brown dwarf.…
A recent find announced by astronomers may go a long ways towards understanding a crucial “missing link” between planets and…
The bright star Fomalhaut hosts a spectacular debris disk: a dusty circling plane of small objects where planets form. At…