New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...

The first pulsar – a spinning neutron star, beaming out radio waves – was discovered 50 years ago. This Nature Astronomy Collection celebrates that discovery and subsequent developments by combining ...

An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

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Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, astronomers detected faint “starquakes” rippling through the ...

The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

What are the key scientific challenges for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade? Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s identifies the most compelling science goals ...

What can an ancient supernova teach scientists about Earth and celestial objects? This is what a study recently published in ...

From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. Think back to what you learned about astronomy in elementary school. If you’re like most people, ...

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