Astronomers

Science & Nature An elongated dust and gas feature named X7 has a mass of about 50 Earth masses and is on an orbital...

Science & Nature Astronomers propose that the space of planetary system architectures be partitioned into four classes: similar, mixed, anti-ordered, and ordered. The post Astronomers...

Wolf 1069b is the sixth closest Earth-mass exoplanet situated in the conservative habitable zone of its parent star, after Proxima Centauri b, Gliese 1061d,...

The newly-detected ring orbits at 7.4 radii from Quaoar -- much further away from the object than the rings around Saturn. The post Astronomers Discover Ring...

Wolf 1069 b offers a unique opportunity to study a potentially habitable and tidally locked exoplanet...

Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have uncovered the first example of a phenomenally rare type of binary star system, one that has all the right conditions to eventually trigger a kilonova -- the ultra-powerful, gold-producing explosion created by colliding neutron stars. Such

In November 2019, the nearby single, isolated white dwarf LAWD 37 aligned closely with a distant background source and caused a so-called microlensing event. The...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and three radio telescopes, astronomers have observed the huge galaxy cluster merger Abell 2256. The post Astronomers Capture...