Astronomers Discover Continuous Infrared Winds During the Eruption of a Stellar Mass Black Hole
Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, such as X-rays or the visible, depending on the phase in…
Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, such as X-rays or the visible, depending on the phase in…
Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates. The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope of…
NASA has assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to…
New machine learning algorithm designed by astronomers and computer scientists from University of Warwick confirms new exoplanets in telescope data Sky surveys find thousands of…
The three Expedition 63 crew members spent another day inside the Russian segment of the International Space Station. This allowed Mission controllers to continue their leak…
A new letter has been found in the mysterious alphabet of black holes. Two astrophysicists share this discovery in the journal Nature Communications. Black holes…
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high…
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)…
Late on August 16, 2020, the Sun released a burst of light and energy known as a solar flare. This B1-class solar flare – the…
Despite the planet’s seeming standstill, graduate students continue to use LIGO to identify astrophysical events. When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, and its European…
Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will respond to commands once in space. Known…
Our solar system has one habitable planet — Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like exoplanets in the…
A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall…
Dome A, the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new…
While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section…
Researchers simulate thousands of worlds to see what happens to planets with hydrogen atmospheres. When telescopes became powerful enough to find planets orbiting distant stars,…
New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets – freely floating bodies that drift through…
NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on August 8, zero in on the visitor’s coma, the gossamer shell of gas and dust…