The Search for Life in our Solar System leads seekers to strange places. From our Earthbound viewpoint, an ice-covered moon…
Can tidal forces cause an exoplanet’s surface to radiate heat? This is what a recent study accepted to The Astronomical…
What an exoplanet shaped like a rugby ball tells us about its composition.
If NASA and other space agencies don't want us to freak out about asteroids colliding with Earth, why do they…
Sad fact of the Universe is that all stars will die, eventually. And when they do, what happens to their…
An international team of scientists claim that a superluminous event in a distant galaxy was caused by a star being…
A telescope peers into the blackness of deep space. Suddenly - a brilliant flash of light appears that wasn't there before.…
The shape of the moon deviates from a simple sphere in a way that scientists have struggled to explain. But…
[/caption] It was just about three months ago that the astronomy world watched in awe as the recently-discovered comet Lovejoy…
[/caption] WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is a real outlier among the 400 or so exoplanets discovered to date. Not that…