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…

In 2005 the Hubble Space Telescope spotted unusually small galaxies densely packed with red stars in the distant, young…

An alien world reported to be the first known planet to consist largely of diamond appears less likely to be of such precious nature, according to a new analysis led by UA graduate student Johanna Teske.

A planet 40 light years from our solar system, believed to be the first-ever discovered planet to consist largely of dia…

A high performance terahertz receiver aiming for space missions such as ESA’s Jupiter icy moons explorer has been develo…

Solar storms — powerful eruptions of solar material and magnetic fields into interplanetary space — can cause what is kn…

Map reveals a lopsided cloud distribution on an extremely hot planet.

On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any giv…

A University of Alabama in Huntsville graduate student and a recent UAH doctoral graduate are exploring surprising data…

A space-based laser system proposed to NASA by University of Alabama in Huntsville researchers could be a cost-effective…

More than 83,000 volunteer citizen scientists participated in the crowdsourcing project

The project, named Galaxy Zoo 2, is the second phase of a crowdsourcing effort to categorize galaxies in our universe.

Astronomers have for the first time found a jet of high-energy particles from a dying star. The discovery, by a team inc…

Einstein@Home discovers 24 new pulsars in archival data

The combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs helps astronomers take an inventory of the Milky Way

Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of…

Subaru telescope snaps image of exoplanet GJ 504 b, which orbits a Sun-like star

Using the Subaru telescope on Hawai'i, a group of astronomers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ast…

The sun's magnetic field can play havoc with communications technology. Stanford scientists have now described one of the underlying processes that help form the magnetic field, which could help scientists predict its behavior.

The sun's magnetic field can play havoc with communications technology. Stanford scientists have now described one of th…