Astronomers discover the youngest planet in the universe: How Elias 2-24 b was born
Astronomers confirm the youngest exoplanet ever detected — less than a million years old and still wrapped in the disk […]
Hubble telescope searches for an elusive supernova
Hubble captured a new image of galaxy cluster MACS J0417 on September 19, 2026, and what’s interesting isn’t just the […]
This star is being devoured… very slowly
Did you know there’s a star being devoured by a black hole… but not all at once? The phenomenon is […]
The star that made us believe in aliens (and why we were wrong)
For years, one star made astronomers question everything they thought they knew about how starlight dims. It’s called KIC 8462852, […]
The star that SURVIVED its own explosion
There’s a star, LP 40-365, that appears to be the strange survivor of a failed supernova. Astronomers believe it was […]
A galaxy that fakes spiral arms… but doesn’t have any
Did you know only about 1% of galaxies in our local universe belong to a rare category called “post-starburst” galaxies? […]
A black hole woke up years after devouring a star
n 2018, a supermassive black hole destroyed a star that ventured too close — a normal tidal disruption event, the […]
There’s a star that has survived the same black hole twice
In 2022, astronomers detected a flash of light coming from a distant galaxy: a star had been partially devoured by […]
The planet being eaten alive by its own star: WASP-12b
Did you know there’s a planet doomed to disappear? WASP-12b orbits so close to its star that it completes a […]
THE PLANET WHERE IT RAINS GLASS
Did you know there’s a planet where it probably rains glass? The exoplanet HD 189733 b, located about 64 light-years […]