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…

Stunning images of the Andromeda Galaxy are among the first to emerge from a new wide-field camera installed on the enor…

MIT team discovers an exoplanet that orbits its star in 8.5 hours.

In the time it takes you to complete a single workday, or get a full night’s sleep, a small fireball of a planet 700 lig…

Radio astronomers use pulsar with strong magnetic field to investigate supermassive black hole

Astronomers have discovered a magnetar at the centre of our Milky Way. This pulsar has an extremely strong magnetic fiel…

Astronomers accept that in the first steps of a new star’s birth, dense clouds of gas collapse into clumps that, with th…

Thanks to new technology developed in part at the UA, astronomers can now view objects in the sky at unprecedented sharpness in visible light.

Thanks to new technology developed in part at the UA, astronomers can now view objects in the sky at unprecedented sharp…

Tiny, round, cold clouds in space have all the right characteristics to form planets with no parent star. New observatio…

Quasars are active black holes – primarily from the early universe. Using a special method where you observe light that…