The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...
A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a supermassive black hole.
A software developer from Iceland has successfully hacked a satellite's flight computer to run a port of the infamous 1993 ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a thick irradiated crust that no longer resembles its home star system, simulations and ...
New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping ...
When the rings are close to edgewise, they appear less bright, presenting a fine opportunity to observe Saturn’s moons. The brightest, Titan, has a 16-day orbit, and appears farthest east of the ...
About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.
In this evening's southeastern sky, you'll see a bright waxing gibbous moon to the upper right of Saturn. Both of them are at the western edge of Pisces but the ...