Tardigrades Will Be The Last Survivors On Earth
A newly published study reveals that an eight-legged micro-animal will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes and survive long after humans are…
A newly published study reveals that an eight-legged micro-animal will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes and survive long after humans are…
Two separate teams of researchers have identified major challenges for the development of life in the TRAPPIST-1 system. The red dwarf star in this system…
A newly published Harvard-Smithsonian study of the twenty-four known Y-dwarfs finds that the models for the coolest of them fail to explain the observed properties….
Chandra reveals that the X-ray emission from Pluto is as strong as that coming from solar system objects with much more substantial atmospheres. Pluto is…
A new analysis of eighteen thousand colliding galaxies reveals that mergers like the one in galaxy NGC 4676 are the dominant mechanism for determining the…
New research on the molecular cloud complex in Orion-B reveals the detailed relationships between the gas and dust, and quantifies how the spatially varying intensities…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers has discovered a surprisingly weak and wildly disorganized magnetic field very near a newly…
Using Chandra, a team of astronomers has found that the nuclear region emitting hard X-rays in galaxy ESO 428-G014 is more than ten times larger…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the correlation between a galaxy’s stellar mass and star formation rate is a tight one….
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics present new models of star-forming filamentary clouds in order to quantify their properties and to predict their evolution….
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris…
A newly published Harvard study on similar galaxies whose central active black hole nucleus is obscured has concluded that accreting streams of material into the…
Using the ALMA submillimeter array, a team of astronomers form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found evidence for shocked gas near the nucleus of…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail the discovery of what might be the first LMXB whose compact object is a…
Astronomers are moving to the next phase of studying alien worlds – searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System. And the…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have combined statistical studies of infrared data with submillimeter images to estimate the typical age…
Astronomers have begun a program to model the stellar winds and magnetic field for active M-dwarf stars, finding that the pressure of the stellar wind…