Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

"The more dark matter you have around, the more you can capture. And, the more dark matter ends up inside the star, the more ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will capture more information about our universe than all optical telescopes throughout history combined,” said National Science Foundation Chief of Staff Brian Stone.

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

An asteroid that could smash into the Moon in 2032 could trigger a gigantic explosion that would send debris streaming ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...