This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest…
Read >>Astronomer Eric Mamajek at the University of Rochester and his co-author from the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, h…
Read >>A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – ar…
Read >>Scientists have located an ancient solar system, dating back to the dawn of the galaxy, which appears to be a miniature…
Read >>Cosmic particle accelerators, mostly supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulas, i.e. end products of massive stars, are…
Read >>Lasting only milliseconds, the first such radio burst was discovered in 2007 by astronomers combing the Parkes data arch…
Read >>Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black h…
Read >>In an interstellar race against time, astronomers have measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and…
Read >>The central regions of many glittering galaxies, our own Milky Way included, harbor cores of impenetrable darkness—black…
Read >>The mystery was finally solved by studying data collected simultaneously by the European Space Agency’s Cluster and NASA…
Read >>A new paper, co-authored by University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Joseph Bramante, discusses how detecting imploding p…
Read >>International team of researchers uses laser light and intense magnetic fields to simulate astrophysical jets in the lab
Read >>A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that bl…
Read >>Astronomers working to estimate the rate of star formation inside murky distant galaxies, those shrouded in dust clouds…
Read >>How do galaxies like our Milky Way form, and just how do they evolve? Are galaxies affected by their surrounding enviro…
Read >>With the help of citizen scientists, a research team that includes University of Maryland astronomers has found an impor…
Read >>One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common method…
Read >>During a nine-day test in February 2014 Kepler detected a single planetary transit. The newfound planet, HIP 116454b, ha…
Read >>Scientists have observed in precise detail the stripping of gas from a distant galaxy as they seek to understand what sh…
Read >>For the first time researchers have measured large distances in the Universe using data, rather than calculations relate…
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