A pair of researchers has found possible evidence of an extrasolar object striking the Earth back in 2014. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb describe ...

The photo (Animated version) of a nearby star and its orbiting companion — whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona — will be revealed by Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and ...

Three extrasolar comets have been discovered around the star Beta Pictoris, 63 light years away. Analysis of data from the current NASA mission TESS has revealed the objects for the first time using ...

Astronomers have “cracked” a very cold case with the dissection of light from the coldest known brown dwarf. In fact, the brown dwarf, named WISE 0855, is billed as the most frigid discrete world yet ...

For the first time ever an object that seems to have originated from outside the Solar System has been detected passing though our neighbourhood. Temporarily designated as A/2017 U1, the extrasolar ...