outer space

On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at …

New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit …

An unusual supernova studied by multiple telescopes, including the SOAR telescope and other telescopes at the National Science …

Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a new world, a planet roughly twice the …

An international team of astronomers, including from the University of Cambridge, discovered the massive object when trawling through …

Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe’s oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of …

Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter- and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first …

The potentially rocky planet, known as Barnard’s star b, is a “super-Earth” with a mass of at least …

University of Sydney astronomers, working with international colleagues, have found a star system like none seen before in …

In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as ‘Oumuamua — the first known interstellar …