University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Discover new insights into neutron star masses and formation. Learn how recent findings are reshaping astrophysics and ...

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Apr. 3, 2025 — The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into ...

When an exoplanet is found in a binary star system – which indeed exists – its orbit is generally aligned with the plane in which its two hosts revolve around each other. A perpendicular orbit ...