‘In the News’ Archives

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a … “A Super-Tiny Star Gave Birth to a Giant Planet And We Don’t Know How”

“As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our Galaxy seem greatly exaggerated.” That’s … “The Milky Way Might Not Crash Into The Andromeda Galaxy After All”

Astronomers in Hawaii said this week that they’ve detected 3 different stars being devoured by supermassive … “Astronomers spy biggest explosions since Big Bang”

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the … “Water Discovered Around a Young, Sun-Like Star For First Time”

These are the clearest images to date of the sun’s corona. Scientists developed a new optical … “Clearest view of the sun’s corona: See the stunning details”

The mystery of strangely blinking objects scattered throughout the Milky Way just deepened. Something 15,000 … “Chance X-Ray Discovery Reveals Mystery Object 15,000 Light Years Away”

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at … “Light Travels Across The Universe Without Losing Energy. But How?”

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of … “The Universe Is ‘Suspiciously’ Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says”

Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has … “Mysteriously Perfect Sphere Spotted in Space by Astronomers”

More than sixty years ago, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) officially began with Project Ozma at … “Survey of More Than 1,300 Stars Uncovers Unexplained Pulses of Light”