New research explains celestial phenomenon recorded earlier this year

For the first time, a team of astronomers from around the world, including experts from the University of Leicester, hav…

Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two University of Maryland-led teams of scientists have found f…

Molecular clouds in the whirlpool galaxy appear to be embedded in fog, whose pressure is crucial in determining the birth of suns

A multi-year study of the Whirlpool galaxy has changed our understanding of giant molecular clouds, in which stars are b…

First Detection of the Kinetic SZ Effect in an Individual Galaxy Cluster

By observing a high-speed component of a massive galaxy cluster, Caltech/JPL scientists and collaborators have detected…

Stanford physicists played a key role in monitoring and analyzing the brightest gamma ray burst ever measured, and suggest that its never-before-seen features could call for a rewrite of current theories.

This past April, an incredibly bright flash of light burst from near the constellation Leo. Originating billions of ligh…

ESA selects the science theme for its next large mission

The mission is expected to be launched in 2028, with the power to address some of the most fundamental questions in mode…

An atmospheric peculiarity the Earth shares with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune is likely common to billions of pla…

With the help of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, an international team of as…

The youngest pair of stars to emerge from a supernova, dancing around each other as the neutron star cannibalises its pa…

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over an odd source of X-ray light in an arm of the Pinwheel Galaxy, just off the h…

Two months ago astronomers created a new 3D map of stars at the centre of our Galaxy, showing more clearly than ever the…

Hopes are high for Comet ISON, which has the potential to become the most spectacular comet seen in years. ISON is speed…

Humans take the starry night for granted. But Earth’s night sky hasn’t always sparkled: In the distant past, during the…

The find, reported online in the Nov. 7 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, has left them scratching their heads…

The sun's magnetic field is poised to reverse its polarity. The effects of the event, which occurs every 11 years, will ripple throughout the solar system and be closely monitored by Stanford solar physicists.

The sun's magnetic field is poised to reverse its polarity. The effects of the event, which occurs every 11 years, will…

Imagers Integral to Studying Sun at Distance Closer than Previous Missions

With its large field of view, SoloHI will make high-resolution images of the corona and solar wind and be able to connec…

While too hot to support life, Kepler 78b is roughly the size of the Earth.

The team has found that Kepler 78b shares another characteristic with Earth: its mass. By analyzing the movement of its…

Advances in cameras, new strategies for detection make it possible

Astronomers at The Ohio State University have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova o…

By detecting an even distribution of iron throughout a massive galaxy cluster, astrophysicists can tell the 10-billion-year-old story of how exploding stars and black holes sowed the early cosmos with heavy elements

By detecting an even distribution of iron throughout a massive galaxy cluster, astrophysicists can tell the 10-billion-y…

A team led by astronomers from Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory have used the powerful telescope Alma to catch an u…