Astronomers Discover Eleven Dangerous Asteroids That Could Impact the Earth
Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their research…
Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their research…
Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released February 14, 2020, by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative — the most comprehensive survey yet of…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning…
A recent update to this historic portrait shows Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness of space. For the 30th anniversary of one…
Analysis of a portion of the data looks at nearby stars that could see Earth transiting sun. On Friday (February 14, 2020), the Breakthrough Listen…
Brown dwarfs traversing space together, but separated by billions of miles, puzzle scientists. Citizen scientists have uncovered a bizarre pairing of two brown dwarfs, objects…
The spiral galaxy NGC 2008 sits center stage, its ghostly spiral arms spreading out towards us, in this image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown…
Radiation from dying stars is luminous enough to easily spin up orbiting asteroids to break-up speed New study led by University of Warwick astronomer computes…
A tilted orbit may explain the asteroid Pallas’ highly cratered surface. Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere…
Allen Lawrence, wrapping up a long career as an electrical engineer, was serious about moving his astronomy hobby beyond the 20-inch (51-centimeter) telescope he’d hauled…
This eye-catching galaxy is known as NGC 5364. Unmistakably a spiral, NGC 5364 is also something known as a grand design spiral galaxy — a…
XMM-2599 lived fast and died young, says University of California, Riverside-led international team. An international team of astronomers led by scientists at the University of…
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, have spotted a peculiar gas cloud that resulted from a confrontation…
When Solar Orbiter launches on its journey to the Sun, there’s one key piece of engineering making this ESA-NASA mission possible: the heat shield. Seeking…
ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the world’s biggest eye on the sky, will have a pioneering five-mirror optical system that will allow it to unveil…
A “cold Neptune” and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five newly discovered exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates found orbiting nearby…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery For more than 16 years, the infrared observatory revealed new wonders in our solar system, our…