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Sun's Death Likely to Set Interplanetary Pinball Game in Motion

Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, according to a study led by the University of Warwick that peers into its future.

14 Jun 2021

Newly Discovered 'Sub-Neptune' Exoplanet is Ripe for Investigation

Orbiting a red dwarf in our galactic neighborhood, the small and cool exoplanet TOI-1231 b could offer astronomers a unique target for investigations of alien worlds.

10 Jun 2021

CHIME Telescope Observations Quadruple the Number of Fast Radio Bursts Discovered to Date

Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters.

10 Jun 2021

Mauritius' First Nanosatellite has Reached the International Space Station

The first ever Mauritian nanosatellite MIR-SAT1 has docked at the International Space Station aboard SpaceX-CRS22 Cargo Dragon rocket on Saturday 5 June 2021.

10 Jun 2021

Scientists Resolve Mysteries Surrounding Origin of Aurora Borealis

The spectacularly colorful aurora borealis -- or northern lights -- that fills the sky in high-latitude regions has fascinated people for thousands of years.

9 Jun 2021

Astronomers Complete First Census of Molecular Clouds in the Nearby Universe

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has completed the first census of molecular clouds in the nearby Universe, revealing that contrary to previous scientific opinion, these stellar nurseries do not all look and act the same.

9 Jun 2021

Research Group Discovers Dying Supermassive Black Hole via a 3,000-Year-Long Light Echo

Supermassive black holes occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to 10 billion solar masses.

9 Jun 2021

A New Method to Spot the Whereabouts of Rare Extragalactic Objects

Astrophysicists from the University of Bath have developed a new method for pinpointing the whereabouts of extremely rare extragalactic objects.

9 Jun 2021

A Stream of Stars in the Milky Way Extends At Least 1,600 Light-Years

It's hard to see more than a handful of stars from Princeton University, because the lights from New York City, Princeton and Philadelphia prevent our sky from ever getting pitch black, but stargazers who get into more rural areas can see hundreds of naked-eye stars -- and a few smudgy objects, too.

8 Jun 2021

Researchers Determine the Mode of Formation and Development of Galactic Bulges

An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has used the Gran Telescopio Canarias to study a representative sample of galaxies, both disc and spheroidal, in a deep sky zone in the constellation of the Great Bear to characterize the properties of the stellar populations of galactic bulges.

8 Jun 2021