2+ hour, 50+ min ago  (528+ words) Astronomers have discovered two unusual stellar objects that may belong to a completely new class of star remnants. These objects, nicknamed "Gandalf" and "Moon-Sized," share a rare combination of features that scientists have not seen together before, raising new questions…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago  (26+ words) Techno-Science. net " Astronomers identify 45 nearby exoplanets as potentially habitable The habitable zone of a star...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (646+ words) Astronomers confirmed SDSS J0715-7334 as the most metal-poor star ever found, a survivor of the universe's second stellar generation born near the Large Magellanic Cloud. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) A dim red giant just out of reach of the Milky Way…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago  (231+ words) A first-of-its-kind space mission is planning to reveal more about the magnetic bubble surrounding the earth. Scientists from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Dorking, Surrey, will help to launch a spacecraft orbiting more than 120, 000 km (74, 564 miles) above the North…...

9+ hour, 22+ min ago  (159+ words) NASA (. gov) Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: The clouds may look like an oyster, and the stars like pearls, but look beyond. Near the outskirts of the >Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million…...

17+ hour, 46+ min ago  (312+ words) In the exurbs of the Milky Way, near a satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, researchers have discovered the most metal-poor, chemically primitive star ever found, according to new research from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Findings from the…...

15+ hour, 42+ min ago  (329+ words) Could the 'black hole' at the centre of our Galaxy actually be dark matter? Astronomers have proposed a radical alternative to the long-held belief that a supermassive black hole sits at the centre of the Milky Way, suggesting that instead…...

9+ hour, 49+ min ago  (450+ words) The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier 101 is one of the biggest and brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky. Like the Milky Way, Messier 101 is not alone, with smaller dwarf…...

16+ hour, 34+ min ago  (831+ words) Researchers have captured the first X-ray image of a bubble around a young, Sun-like star called HD 61005, revealing hot gas extending far beyond the star itself. That discovery turns a distant system into a direct look at the kind of…...

13+ hour, 34+ min ago  (395+ words) The group originally launched the Japanese-language exoplanet database "Exo Kyoto" in 2016 and has since advanced research on planetary environments, as well as educational and outreach applications. In particular, their work has contributed to the evaluation of cosmic radiation environments associated…...