University of California, Irvine. An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s temperate zone. The world, ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

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The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as category winners in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Ryan Imperio was ...

In 2005, when South Africa and its partner countries in Africa submitted a proposal to host the world’s largest radio telescope, called the Square Kilometre Array, the continent had five ...

Using the world's most powerful solar telescope, researchers secured the first direct evidence of tiny, twisting Alfvén waves ...

The company's 693-square-foot BlueBird satellites can appear as bright stars in the night sky, according to astronomers, and the company has plans for even bigger ones. As it develops satellite-based ...