Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, gets its first official feature names The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for
Fascinating zoo of discs discovered around young stars The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows
TESS readies for takeoff Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized
The ESA Just Discovered a Second Magnetic Field Surrounding Our Planet A trio of satellites studying our planet’s magnetic field
A cosmic gorilla effect could blind the detection of aliens A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed