Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

In one distant stretch of the Milky Way, astronomers watched a star flare, fade, and leave behind evidence that upended a major cosmic assumption. What first seemed like a simple red-giant gulp now ...

Rogue planets sound like rare travelers among the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...