30 years ago: NASA’s Voyager 2 made a historic Neptune flyby
Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our...
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet’s colorful belts
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing...
NASA gets a rare look at a rocky exoplanet’s surface
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting...
Scientists discover another giant planet in the Beta Pictoris system
Astronomers have discovered a second giant planet in orbit around β Pictoris, a star that is relatively young (23 million years old) and close...
Scientists detect a black hole swallowing a neutron star
Scientists, including from Australian National University (ANU), say they have detected a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the first time.
Neutron stars and...
Glitch in neutron star reveals its hidden secrets
Neutron stars are not only the densest objects in the Universe, but they also rotate very fast and regularly.
Until they suddenly don’t.
The “glitch” happens...
Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive planet
Jupiter's core may still be reeling from collision 4.5 billion years ago.
A colossal, head-on collision between Jupiter and a still-forming planet in the early...
How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?
A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from...
8 million of virtual universes reveal how galaxies form
Scientists generated millions of different universes on a supercomputer, each of which obeyed different physical theories for how galaxies should form.
Observing real galaxies in...
Scientists find a new way to search for life in the universe
Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos.
Astronomers have uncovered a new way of searching for life in the cosmos.
Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares...