Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

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In a fascinating investigation into the Yule log, the historian developed an innovative approach to the magical dimension ...

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

During comet 3I/ATLAS's closest approach to Earth, the Breakthrough Listen project attempted to search the interstellar ...

Another batch of the ‘impossible’ galaxies turned out not to be standard galaxies at all, but a new type of object that ...

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs mechanism explained only part of the story. A new wave of theoretical work now ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...

Astronomers say 3I/ATLAS is so unusual that it is forcing a rethink of probability distributions used to model interstellar ...