February 14, 2017 Astronomers discover 60 new worlds, find 'super Earth' An international team of astronomers has found 60 new planets orbiting stars close to Earth’s solar system, including a rocky “super Earth.”
February 14, 2017 Crowdsourcing the sky: Huge star database made available to the public Astronomy aficionados everywhere now have the chance to help scientists hunt exoplanets.
February 13, 2017 'Superflares' likely made Proxima b uninhabitable long ago The nearby alien planet Proxima b is not a great candidate to host life as we know it, a new study suggests.
February 10, 2017 Stargazers' delight: Lunar eclipse, comet, and 'Snow Moon' in one incredible night The Full Snow Moon will experience a penumbral eclipse.
February 10, 2017 Stray black hole turned cosmic gas cloud into speeding 'bullet' A stray black hole may be responsible for turning a gas cloud into a speeding cosmic bullet trillions of miles long.
January 16, 2017 Green glow from ancient galaxies surprises scientists A new analysis reveals that some of the most distant galaxies ever observed are radiating green light, a finding that could deeply affect developing models of those early galaxies.
January 13, 2017 Star explosion expected to create spectacular light show in 2022 Astronomers have detected two stars that are on course to collide and create a spectacular explosion in Earth's sky sometime between 2021 and 2023.
January 13, 2017 Could dark streaks in Venus' clouds be signs of alien life? The question of life on Venus, of all places, is intriguing enough that a team of U.S. and Russian scientists working on a proposal for a new mission to the second planet — named Venera-D — are considering including the search for life in its mission goals.
January 12, 2017 Is the Milky Way's black hole producing speeding 'spitballs'? Apparently no one told the black hole at the center of our galaxy that it’s impolite to spit in public.
January 11, 2017 Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old It turns out the moon is older than many scientists suspected: a ripe 4.51 billion years old.