"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...
An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...
Astronomers may have just solved an intergalactic “whodunit.” Researchers traced the trajectories of super speedy stars all ...
The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...
Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...
The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...
This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...
Astronomers have figured out where a stream of long radio bursts is coming from, and its origin is unprecedented. Rather than ...