In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less "shocked" than expected, missing the effects often seen in a ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers are facing great adversity. They have fallen 2–0 behind the Los Angeles Kings in the ...

For Gourab Majumdar, founder of the Bengal Bonsai Club, every bonsai is a legacy — an art that lives on long after the ...

Young white dwarf binaries (in this case a white dwarf and a star) rarely have strong magnetic fields, but their evolved interacting counterparts (cataclysmic variables) often do. As the objects begin ...

Over the first month of the 2025 season, we’ve seen an interesting trend in the home run rankings. Reigning American League ...

In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

Digging into the statistics reveals reasons for cautious optimism.

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...