Discovery Reveals How Gamma-Ray Emissions from Stellar Explosions are Produced
By using radio telescopes from across Europe and America, an international team of astronomers has been able to see into the heart of an exploding…
By using radio telescopes from across Europe and America, an international team of astronomers has been able to see into the heart of an exploding…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics studied the debris disc around τ Ceti, revealing that a Jupiter-mass planet could not be present in this…
This ESA image of the week shows the remains of a dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun. Known…
New data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals evidence of basaltic volcanism on the Moon occurring within the past 100 million years. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance…
This newly released Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The brightly glowing plumes seen…
NASA is preparing its science fleet for comet Sliding Spring’s close encounter with Mars, which will occur on October 19 when Sliding Spring passes within…
A team of astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a turbulent planet outside…
New research from the University of Western Australia reveals that the amount of dark matter in the Milky Way is half as much as previously…
In a new study, a team of astronomers reveals that the black hole known as P13 is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times…
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astronomers have detected the brightest pulsar to date, located about 12 million light-years away in the galaxy Messier 82….
Images by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal the existence of a large impact crater on the unseen side of the Lutetia asteroid. Rosetta flew past Lutetia…
Using the three most powerful optical telescopes in the world, astronomers from Swinburne University have focused on a single point in the sky to test…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory viewed gigantic filament for several days as it rotated around with the sun. If straightened out, the filament would measure about…
This newly released Hubble image shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4206, which is located about 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers studied the first few billion years of the universe to determine…
This new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows of one of the most star-rich open clusters currently known — Messier 11, also known as…
Data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveals that a giant polar vortex hovering over the south pole of Titan contains frozen particles of the toxic compound…
Using new data obtained by NASA’s GRAIL mission, astronomers discovered that a volcanic plume, not an asteroid, likely created the moon’s largest basin. Early theories…