UMass Amherst, Mexican astronomers develop new model of star formation

Astronomers working to estimate the rate of star formation inside murky distant galaxies, those shrouded in dust clouds…

UC Riverside-led team proposes that filaments in the cosmic web played a critical role in the distant universe

How do galaxies like our Milky Way form, and just how do they evolve? Are galaxies affected by their surrounding enviro…

With the help of citizen scientists, a research team that includes University of Maryland astronomers has found an impor…

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common method…

During a nine-day test in February 2014 Kepler detected a single planetary transit. The newfound planet, HIP 116454b, ha…

Scientists have observed in precise detail the stripping of gas from a distant galaxy as they seek to understand what sh…

For the first time researchers have measured large distances in the Universe using data, rather than calculations relate…

These highly energetic bursts of hard radiation have been seen by gamma-ray satellites such as Fermi and Swift, but the…

For the first time, an international team of astronomers has revealed the dramatic blow out phase of galactic evolution

They uncovered a population of very gas-rich systems, containing between 20 and 80 billion times the mass of the Sun in…

An international team of astronomers have uncovered new insights into the processes that have shaped galaxies, using

Astronomers have observed a mysterious phenomenon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space…

But weather forecasting on the Red Planet is likely to be even trickier than on Earth

A new study by researchers at McGill University and UCL finds that this same three-part pattern applies to atmospheric c…

In the early universe, starburst galaxies like AzTEC-3 formed stars at a frenetic pace, fueled by the copious quantities…

Using the observations, scientists were able to make a direct connection between the input of debris from the meteor sho…

The new movie Interstellar explores a longstanding fascination, but UA astrophysicists are using cutting-edge technology…

An international team of astronomers has carried out the most accurate study so far of the cocoon of gas and dust surrou…

A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a pl…

For the first time, scientists have measured the size and structure of a nova’s nuclear blast as it happened — thanks, i…

The image shows the planet from an altitude of 36,500 kilometers, or 22,680 miles, in three ultraviolet wavelength bands…