Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. However, most of them are effectively ...

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Breakthrough detection method: Roman will use gravitational microlensing to spot isolated neutron stars that are otherwise invisible to current telescopes. Mass measurement potential: By combining ...

Spread the loveThe cosmos is an enigmatic tapestry of celestial bodies, with neutron stars emerging as some of the most fascinating and mysterious remnants of supernova explosions. These compact ...

New detection method: Roman will use gravitational microlensing to spot dim, isolated neutron stars by measuring light bending and positional shifts of background stars. Why it matters: Mass ...

How common are super-Earth exoplanets throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than 60 researchers used a well-known ...

Scientists have found what appear to be rogue planets hidden in old survey data. Their results are starting to define the poorly-understood rogue planet population. In the near future, the Nancy Grace ...

Photometric data and fitted light curve of the event AT2021uey. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202554236 Scientists from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, ...

A major breakthrough in the search for new worlds beyond our solar system happened recently with the discovery of a planet using a technique known as gravitational lensing. The new planet is about 1.5 ...

An international team of astronomers led by David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame has discovered an extra-solar planet of about three Earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its ...

Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet only three times more massive than our own, the smallest yet observed orbiting a normal star. The star itself is not large, perhaps as little as one ...