For the first time, a team of astronomers from around the world, including experts from the University of Leicester, hav…
Read >>Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two University of Maryland-led teams of scientists have found f…
Read >>A multi-year study of the Whirlpool galaxy has changed our understanding of giant molecular clouds, in which stars are b…
Read >>By observing a high-speed component of a massive galaxy cluster, Caltech/JPL scientists and collaborators have detected…
Read >>This past April, an incredibly bright flash of light burst from near the constellation Leo. Originating billions of ligh…
Read >>The mission is expected to be launched in 2028, with the power to address some of the most fundamental questions in mode…
Read >>An atmospheric peculiarity the Earth shares with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune is likely common to billions of pla…
Read >>With the help of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, an international team of as…
Read >>The youngest pair of stars to emerge from a supernova, dancing around each other as the neutron star cannibalises its pa…
Read >>For decades, astronomers have puzzled over an odd source of X-ray light in an arm of the Pinwheel Galaxy, just off the h…
Read >>Two months ago astronomers created a new 3D map of stars at the centre of our Galaxy, showing more clearly than ever the…
Read >>Hopes are high for Comet ISON, which has the potential to become the most spectacular comet seen in years. ISON is speed…
Read >>Humans take the starry night for granted. But Earth’s night sky hasn’t always sparkled: In the distant past, during the…
Read >>The find, reported online in the Nov. 7 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, has left them scratching their heads…
Read >>The sun's magnetic field is poised to reverse its polarity. The effects of the event, which occurs every 11 years, will…
Read >>With its large field of view, SoloHI will make high-resolution images of the corona and solar wind and be able to connec…
Read >>The team has found that Kepler 78b shares another characteristic with Earth: its mass. By analyzing the movement of its…
Read >>Astronomers at The Ohio State University have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova o…
Read >>By detecting an even distribution of iron throughout a massive galaxy cluster, astrophysicists can tell the 10-billion-y…
Read >>A team led by astronomers from Chalmers and Onsala Space Observatory have used the powerful telescope Alma to catch an u…
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