More than sixty years ago, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) officially began with Project Ozma at ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

Set to launch in just two years, Roman is poised to transform our understanding of exoplanets and the structure of the universe. Like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), it can detect both ...

Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...

When Lungelo Zondi first learned about stars and galaxies at primary school in South Africa, she dreamed of having a live ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the mass of the Sun or lower. The spring night sky, however, offers us ...

If advanced alien civilisations are building vast satellite swarms designed to harvest a star’s energy, we should be able to see them – so why haven’t we? One answer might be that these ...

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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. Amateur astronomers call it the Owl ...

Boston Public Radio Podcast Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. We feature our favorite conversation ...