NASA’s Solar Probe Plus Will Fly Into The Sun’s Upper Atmosphere
NASA’s Solar Probe Plus will enter the sun’s corona and measure the full force of supersonic solar particles and radiation with a Faraday cup developed…
NASA’s Solar Probe Plus will enter the sun’s corona and measure the full force of supersonic solar particles and radiation with a Faraday cup developed…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics identifies exomoons as a likely source of the apparent accretion of rocky material onto some white dwarf…
Astronomers have identified three kinds of textured dust storms on Mars, and found that these textured storms have preferred seasons and locations. Astronomers studying Mars…
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary outburst in the massive protostellar system NGC6334I-MM1. The outburst, apparently triggered by an avalanche of star-forming gas crashing onto the…
A team of astronomers studying the superluminous supernova Gaia6apd has concluded in part from the behavior of its extraordinary ultraviolet emission that it is powered…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology. The search for extraterrestrial…
In a newly published study, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail a sensitive new method for detecting gravitational waves. The recent detection of…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers search the Taurus region for HC11N in six of its characteristic radio wavelength transitions. The interstellar medium of the…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered white dwarf stars in the disc of the Milky Way galaxy, and measured…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics details how radio frequencies used by cell phones, Wi-Fi, and similar devices could be used…
New measurements of the magnetic field strength in angrite samples find it to be very weak, implying that the field, and the solar nebula itself,…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveal new evidence that an intermediate-mass black hole weighing 2,200 Suns is hiding at the center of the…
Using the spectrometer on the Keck telescope, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics obtained very sensitive magnesium measurements in one of the most massive…
Using the Fermi catalog of very high energy sources and the WISE infrared sky catalog, astronomers have found two BL Lac blazars with no apparent…
A new millimeter wavelength study of massive clusters from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has found good agreement with current ideas about galaxy cluster evolution….
A newly published study provides a list of habitable zone exoplanet candidates from the Kepler Data Release 24 Q1-Q17 data vetting process. In our solar…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, a team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever…
New research reveals that five of the 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy were ripped from another galaxy – the Sagittarius dwarf. The 11…