Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...
Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...
In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.
So, where is the anomaly? According to Loeb, the mystery is why we haven't spotted many more interstellar objects before we ...
The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...
There’s something intriguing about the unknown, especially when it’s hurtling towards our solar system. Astronomers and scientists across the globe are currently tracking a mysterious object making ...
The motion of 3I/ATLAS that helped trace its trajectory revealed a non-gravitational acceleration, which revealed the size of ...
Snyder and Hatch depict a lovely range of holiday moments: on one night, the family gets a flat tire and improvises a candle ...
Schmitt, Joseph R., Agol, Eric, Deck, Katherine M., Rogers, Leslie A., Gazak, J. Zachary, Fischer, Debra A., Wang, Ji, Holman, Matthew J., Jek, Kian J., Margossian ...
A ROGUE planet was spotted growing at a mind-bending rate of six billion tonnes a SECOND. The lost world doesn’t have a home ...