Astronomers Discover Hypervelocity Star Moving at More Than 1 Million MPH
In a newly published study, astronomers report the first hypervelocity star (HVS) discovered from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey – a B-type star with a speed…
In a newly published study, astronomers report the first hypervelocity star (HVS) discovered from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey – a B-type star with a speed…
A new fingerprint-like map from the Planck Space Telescope reveals the magnetic field lines of the Milky Way galaxy, allowing astronomers to study the structure…
By using the space between stars and galaxies as a giant lens, astronomers made the highest resolution measurement ever achieved of a distant neutron star….
A new study from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explores the economic realities of mining an asteroid. Last month NASA held a forum…
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have measured the length of an exoplanet day for the first time, revealing that a day on…
A new ScienceCast video details an intense solar storm that narrowly missed Earth two years ago. If it had hit, researchers say, we could still…
Released today, this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 4605, which is located roughly 16 million light-years away. This…
By analyzing the chemical elements in nearby galaxy Segue 1, new research reveals that it is the least chemically evolved galaxy known and researchers believe…
On April 11, 2014, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its first-ever image of the planet Uranus, shown in the distance beyond Saturn’s rings. The robotic spacecraft…
This new composite image of Centaurus A was created with X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and…
New research based on laboratory experiments shows that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have oceans and ice stacked up in multiple layers like a club sandwich….
Scientists have discovered that gamma-ray bursts behave differently than previously thought, changing the theoretical understandings of the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts. Research from an international…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a runaway star cluster that is moving at more than two million miles per hour. Cambridge,…
Using the Cosmic Web Imager, astronomers from Caltech have obtained the first three-dimensional pictures of the intergalactic medium. Caltech astronomers have taken unprecedented images of…
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s rings and the shadows they cast on the planet. Saturn’s rings cast shadows on the…
Researchers have discovered a young galaxy, called S0901, rotating in a calm manner typical of more developed galaxies like our own spiral Milky Way. New…
By applying new image processing techniques, astronomers uncovered images of debris disks hidden away in Hubble infrared data taken over a decade ago. With the…
Using geochemical meteorite data to understand how the volume of water has changed on Mars over its history, a new study from the Tokyo Institute…