Scientists discover moon-forming disk around distant exoplanet
Using Earth's most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the...
Scientists discover two supermassive black holes headed for a collision
Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes headed for a collision.
Each black hole's mass is more than 800 million times that...
Scientists expand cosmic ‘cheat sheet’ to search for alien life in exoplanets
To understand where exoplanets are in their own evolution, astronomers can use Earth’s biological milestones as a Rosetta stone.
Using nature's color palette from early...
How fast is the universe expanding?
Exactly how fast is the universe expanding?
Scientists are still not completely sure, but a Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has used the neutron star merger...
Scientists discover the “missing” interstellar iron in the universe
Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after lightweight elements such as hydrogen, carbon,...
Einstein’s theory of General Relativity might not be the only way to explain how...
Einstein’s theory of General Relativity is world famous – but it might not be the only way to explain how gravity works and how...
Scientists capture rare fast radio burst from faraway galaxy
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most enigmatic and powerful events in the cosmos.
Around 80 of these events--intensely bright millisecond-long bursts of radio...
Scientists conform our first interstellar visitor is not an alien spacecraft
On October 19, 2017, astronomers discovered the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system.
First spotted by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and...
Comet impacts could jump-start life on early Earth
Comets screaming through the atmosphere of early Earth at tens of thousands of miles per hour likely contained measurable amounts of protein-forming amino acids.
Upon...
Gas on Saturn’s moon Enceladus could be ‘free lunch’ for alien life
The subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus probably has higher than previously known concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen and a more Earthlike pH...