When you put your hand out the window of a moving car, you feel a force pushing against you called drag.…
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With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance…
A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they…
The “music” of starquakes – enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many…
Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one…
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers…
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long period…
Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can’t. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather…
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to…
In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question…