NuSTAR observations reveal X-ray light streaming from regions near supermassive black hole Markarian 335. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and…
New research from Yale University and the Weizmann Institute shows that early quasars took in a “super boost,” feasting from large reservoirs of gas that…
Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astrophysicists may have detected an emission line from a form of dark matter, the sterile neutrino, in the…
A new study from astrophysicists at the University of Warwick reveals that calcium-rich supernovae are likely created by white dwarf stars crashing into neutron stars….
This newly released Hubble image shows several colorful galaxies, the most prominent being the two galaxies on the left: 2MASX J16133219+5103436 at the bottom, and…
In a newly published study, scientists reveal that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in…
Using the William E. Gordon Telescope, astronomers discovered a bridge of atomic hydrogen gas 2.6 million light-years long between galaxies 500 million light-years away. Astronomers…
ESA’s Rosetta became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, making the historic rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on August 6, 2014. After a decade-long…
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to view the light of a star that had lost its outer hydrogen envelope after a Type Iax supernova…
This newly released VLT Survey Telescope image shows spiral galaxy Messier 33, which is located about three million light-years away. The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)…
A new study details the discovery of a Y dwarf (WISE J0304-2705) that may have spent much of its youth as hot as a star….
Using Keck II telescope, the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near-infrared spectrometer on NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, astronomers viewed three massive…
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, approaching a geological unit that’s part of…
This newly released Hubble image shows the globular cluster IC 4499. Globular clusters are big balls of old stars that orbit around their host galaxy….
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics measure for the first time small fluctuations in the Sagittarius A* flux over 23 continuous hours. The center…
NASA’s EUNIS sounding rocket mission has discovered evidence to explain why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, detecting the strongest evidence…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a gravitational lens, breaking the previous record-holder by 200 million…
New research from UK Infra-Red Telescope reveals numerous unknown jets of gas from young stars and planetary nebulae and may prompt significant changes in the…