Browsing: Astronomers

Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent star. This means that the extrasolar planet, or…

Since the discovery of the first world beyond the solar system in the 1990s, astronomers have become adept at spotting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. But while…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered the secrets of early galaxies that pumped the infant cosmos full of dust, which would become…

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…