One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

The study sheds light on Proxima Centauri’s unusually robust magnetic field, which fuels its flaring activity. As its ...

How do water and hydrogen interact in planetary evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a | Space ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

What if the insides of planets are more complicated than we thought? A new study from scientists at UCLA and Princeton ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...