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…

Scientists would love to know which forces created our universe some 14 billion years ago. How could – due to a breaking…

A GRB afterglow occurs when jets from the burst slam into surrounding gas, sweeping that material up like a snowplow, he…

Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), including Penn State astronomers, have released to the publ…

Work on the Thirty Meter Telescope, named for its 30-meter primary mirror — three times the diameter of the largest exis…

Global Navigation Satellite Systems are now routinely used for high accuracy operations around the globe. But the signal…

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observatory has produced its first images and spectra of a little un…

Dartmouth astrophysicists Ryan Hickox and Kevin Hainline and colleagues have a paper scheduled for publication in The As…

Exploring the extreme Universe with a rich new resource

Scientists led by the University of Leicester have set a new record for cosmic X-ray sources ever sighted – creating an…

In a bit of cosmic irony, planets orbiting cooler stars may be more likely to remain ice-free than planets around hotter…

We value gold for many reasons: its beauty, its usefulness as jewelry, and its rarity. Gold is rare on Earth in part bec…

Caltech helps capture the first image of a frosty planetary-disk region

Although it might seem counterintuitive, if you get far enough away from a smoldering young star, you can actually find…

Research points to large reservoirs of material deep in the mantle that may help to explain Earth’s origins.

It’s widely thought that the Earth arose from violent origins: Some 4.5 billion years ago, a maelstrom of gas and dust c…

Study doubles number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University based their study, which appears in Astrophysical J…