T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...
Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have identified a first-of-its-kind planet characterised with a unique hellscape and atmosphere. The planet is found to be orbiting a star in our ...
The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans, suggesting the comet has a cold and distant origin ...
Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...
The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.
Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...
The results, published in February in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, show that under these conditions some exomoons could remain warm enough for liquid water — and ...