Astrophysicist who studied the outer atmospheres of cool stars including the corona of the sun, visible during eclipses ...

Born March 21, 1866, in New York, Antonia Maury was born into a family with an astronomical legacy: Her grandfather, John William Draper, was the second person to photograph the Moon (and the first ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school ...

A giant impact is a collision between large planetary bodies during the late stages of formation. These events shape ...

New observations of 'forbidden' planet TOI5205-b reveal surprising details about it its atmospheric chemistry.

There are more planets in our universe than grains of sand on Earth, and to date, life has only been discovered on one planet ...

Artist’s conception of the gas giant planet TOI-5205 b orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star. Image courtesy of Katherine Cain, Carnegie Science. Scientists have discovered that a highly unusual a ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Frozen ocean world found lurking ...

Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new ...

For some time, astronomers have theorized that there is a connection between planetary mass and rotation. In the solar system ...

Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science A strange giant ...