The mystery radio pulses were picked up about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above Earth by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment. ANITA is a series of instruments that float over ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

Exotic Objects The universe is packed with exotic objects, including black holes, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, magnetars, quasars, and more. New type of cosmic explosion found ...

An exotic cocktail for an atmosphere. WASP-189b is a planet outside our own solar system, ... Nature Astronomy (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01581-z. Journal information: Nature Astronomy ...

On Oct. 2, an annular solar eclipse will wash over one of Earth’s most exotic locales. Astronomy Editor David Eicher will be there.

Longitudinal transition of LTT 9779 b from cloudy to cloud free. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02488-9 A team of international researchers including Dr. Jake Taylor from ...

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University physicist has won early career grants from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and the National Science Foundation to study and model advanced ...