Astronomers Measure the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen in the Universe
Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing time machine; by looking back through space, astronomers actually look back through…
Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing time machine; by looking back through space, astronomers actually look back through…
New research suggests that future searches for habitable planets and for the signals from extraterrestrial observers focus on that part of the sky in which…
New research confirms that the Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone is not centered on the black hole, but is offset; they also confirm that the…
New observations from NASA’s MAVEN Mission have scientists closer to solving the mystery of how Mars’ moon Phobos formed. In late November and early December…
Showcased at the center of this newly released NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300. Located just under 2300…
A newly published study uses IBEX data and simulations of the interstellar boundary to better describe space in our galactic neighborhood. Immediately after its 2008…
An international team of astronomers used a combination of radio and optical telescopes to identify the precise location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in…
A newly published study from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves reveals that low-frequency gravitational waves could soon be detectable by existing radio…
Newly published research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that the burst detected by LIGO occurred because the two black holes lived and died…
Astronomers have completed the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to…
A new study details how a team of X-ray astronomers used lensed radio galaxies to identify and study distant galaxies with active supermassive black hole…
Newly published research details the varying surface temperatures on Saturn’s moon Titan at two-year intervals, from 2004 to 2016. The measurements were made by the…
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn’s moons Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas. Three of Saturn’s moons — Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas — are captured in…
This newly released Hubble image shows Wolf–Rayet star WR 31a. Sparkling at the center of this beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a Wolf–Rayet…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its…
Surrounded by dust, this new Hubble image shows the young forming star known as HBC 1. The star is in an immature and adolescent phase…
New images from the New Horizons Spacecraft suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing…
Astronomers have discovered a binary star system where, every 69 years, the sun disappears in a near-total eclipse that lasts for three and a half…