A team of astronomers have found a pair of supermassive black holes near the center of a newly forming galaxy. The black holes were found hiding in the cen

A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Io, a large moon of Jupiter. Io is the most volcanic body in the Solar System; this vulcanism is caused by tida

A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have been working on a way to move objects without any contact! They developed a way to ma

NASA has officially retired the InSight Mars Lander Mission after more than four years of service, and although this is sad, the science that has been done

A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters presents a solution to some mysterious patterns that have shown up in observations of exoplanet

In a paper recently published in The Astronomical Journal, astronomers have observed the lowest-density – or fluffiest – gas giant ever detecte

On October 12, 2022, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter mission had its second close encounter with the Sun. The Solar Orbiter is an int

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have detailed how groups of stars can regulate their formation. Stars form in groups &nd

How dark is space? That’s a question that some astronomers are trying to answer. To do so, they sorted through 200,000 archival images from NASA&r

A new study shows that the total amount of microplastic deposited on the bottom of oceans has tripled in the past two decades! This increase coincides with

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that there is great diversity of galaxies in the early Universe; the structure of these high reds

An international team of scientists led by Sasha Hinkley at the University of Exeter have used the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope to detect a

Unprecedented discoveries regarding exoplanet atmospheres have just been detailed in a series of new papers (links provided at the end of this article). Th

Polarized X-ray light from a magnetar has been observed for the first time ever and the results have been published in a paper in Science. The X-ray light

This image can easily be mistaken for a planetary nebula, but it is actually an image of a young star in the midst of formation. L1527 is an embedded p

A team of astronomers have captured the first direct image of a brown dwarf orbiting a star. The research was led by the Astrobiology Center of the Nationa

“Are we alone in the Universe?” That is a grand question that scientists have been trying to answer for quite some time now. The search for

Scientists at University College London and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of water ice with the same density as liquid water. A pa

In a recent study published in the Astronomical Journal, astronomers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found at least 3 stars that have b

In a new study submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and made available as a preprint on arVix.org, a team of astronomers dete

In a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MIPA) studied the demographics of an un

Aurorae are a familiar phenomenon on our home planet, Earth. Better known as the “northern lights” – aurorae are a beautifully dramatic a

Researchers from West Virginia University (WVU) are leading a project that will improve our understanding of “space weather.” Space weather is

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) EnVision mission to Venus will perform optical, spectral, and, and radar mapping of Venus. EnVision is a van-sized

The Legged Exploration of the Aristarchus Plateau (LEAP) mission is a concept study funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to design a robot to explore

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first image of Neptune, and it is the clearest view of the planet and its rings that has been observ

In a paper recently published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, astronomers at the University of Bern stress that anthropogenic climate change – clima

A new study published in Nature Communications is shedding new light on the theory of stellar evolution. Astronomers at the University of Innsbruck have sh