Browsing: Astronomers

Silent neutron stars at the center of supernova blast sites may actually be whispering softly, following the detection of faint radio emissions coming from one such…

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn that exist so close to their stars…

How do you weigh a planet you can’t see from many light-years away? Astronomers may have the answer — and it involves “reading between the rings,”…

It turns out interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over…

Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way’s spiral disk — and it’s not as far out from the center of our…

A multitude of new moons have made their presence known around Jupiter and Saturn, bringing their population of moons to 101 and 285, respectively.The new discoveries…

Scientists have adopted the role of “cosmic archaeologists” to discover a rare, iron-deficient second-generation star — essentially a fossil record of our universe’s chemical evolution. Just…

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one…

Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe’s biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful…

While looking through a developing star called L1544, a team of astronomers found methanimine, an organic molecule scattered throughout the clump of gas. This organic molecule…