NASA PUNCH Mission Advances Toward 2023 Launch
On July 23, 2021, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing its latest NASA review and entering…
On July 23, 2021, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing its latest NASA review and entering…
Betelgeuse (α Orionis) is the bright reddish star located in the shoulder of the Orion constellation and can be seen by the naked eye in…
Exploding stars generate dramatic light shows. Infrared telescopes like Spitzer can see through the haze and to give a better idea of how often these…
The shadows cast by the roughness of the Moon’s surface create small cold spots for water ice to accumulate even during the harsh lunar daytime….
Emirati national Aisha Al Yazeedi, a research scientist at the NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Center for Astro, Particle, and Planetary Physics, has published her first research…
The Hubble Space Telescope has made over 1.5 million observations since its launch in 1990, capturing stunning subjects such as the Eagle Nebula and producing…
In 1916, Albert Einstein put the finishing touches on his Theory of General Relativity, a journey that began in 1905 with his attempts to reconcile…
The spiral galaxy IC 1954 takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, which lies approximately 45 million light-years…
A University of Oklahoma doctoral student, graduate and undergraduate research assistants, and an associate professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy…
ALMA data proves that ram pressure stripping doesn’t spell an immediate end for galaxies. A new study from scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
The black holes at the centers of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material…
Researchers explain the design of the relay communication satellite that enabled us to peek at the hidden face of the moon. Because of a phenomenon…
What happens inside a black hole stays inside a black hole, but what happens inside a black hole’s “sphere of influence” – the innermost region…
Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the…
For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a black hole, enabling them to study the processes on its far side….
Black holes, detected by their gravitational wave signal as they collide with other black holes, could be the product of much earlier parent collisions. Such…
Supermassive black holes in the universe swallow gas around them. The infalling gas is called black hole accretion flow. In a study published in Nature…
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the presence of transverse rotation (in the plane of the sky) in three dwarf spheroidal galaxies, a very…