The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
Using a computer model of the retina, researchers have been able to trace the cause of the expanding hole illusion ...
Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...
Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.
Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...
"This is something we haven’t seen before," Lisa Nortmann, a scientist at the University of Göttingen who led the new ...
When the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow, humanity still needs power. Researchers are designing new technologies, from reinvented batteries to compressed air and spinning wheels, to keep ...
In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798 ... dwarf with a mass of 1.22 solar masses and a spin period of approximately 13.2 seconds ...
But do we know which way Earth is spinning? And is it the same direction as the sun and the other planets circling it? The answer is linked to the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...
Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.