Illustration of a star being 'spaghettified' by a supermassive black hole. Red blouds of material from teh star stretch and curve toward the black hole's center Illustration of a star being ...

The Alpha Centauri star system, located just four light-years from Earth, might host a giant planet in its habitable zone. The observation of a Saturn-sized planet by the James Webb Telescope in ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the ...

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. Excited scientists have found three more planets around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star ...

An artist’s conception of the view from one of the four planets orbiting Barnard’s Star. Illustration by R. Proctor/J. Pollard/NOIRLab. Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just ...

Illustration of a star being 'spaghettified' by a supermassive black hole. Red blouds of material from teh star stretch and curve toward the black hole's center ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Astronomers have revealed new evidence ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a supermassive black hole ripped a star to shreds in the center of the galaxy NGC 7392. The flash of light from the black hole's dinner finally reached ...