Astronomers Peer Into Abyss of Space and See Menacing Face Staring Back at Them
When astronomers peer deep into space, they don’t expect to find something staring back at them. In this new Hubble Space Telescope image, an uncanny…
When astronomers peer deep into space, they don’t expect to find something staring back at them. In this new Hubble Space Telescope image, an uncanny…
Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The…
In celebration of Halloween, this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to…
Giant neutrino telescope to open window to ultra-high-energy universe. The long-sought, elusive ultra-high-energy neutrinos, ghost-like particles that travel cosmological-scale distances, are key to understanding the…
The scientific performance demonstrated in the first weeks of operations of the eROSITA X-ray telescope promises a breakthrough in our understanding of the energetic Universe….
An international team of researchers with participation from the University of Göttingen has discovered the first large gas giant orbiting a small star. The planet…
Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighboring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now set its sights on the Milky Way as its…
A mega-merger of four galaxy clusters in Abell 1758 has been observed by Chandra and other telescopes. Abell 1758 contains two pairs of galaxy clusters,…
Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals? University of South Carolina archaeologist finds evidence in South Carolina to support controversial theory. A…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 4653, a galaxy just over 80 million light-years from Earth. That may sound like quite…
Scientists observe year-long plateaus in decline of type Ia supernova light curves, which is a surprising finding as astronomers had expected that the light curve…
Conventional wisdom tells us that large objects appear smaller as they get farther from us, but this fundamental law of classical physics is reversed when…
UMass Amherst, Arizona, Australian team finds new evidence for huge deep space objects. A team of astronomers including assistant professor Kate Whitaker at the University…
The early universe is filled with monsters, a new study revealed. Astronomers discovered a previously invisible galaxy, and perhaps a new galaxy population waiting to…
NASA scientists plan to demonstrate a revolutionary technology for studying hundreds of stars and galaxies at the same time — a new capability originally created…
New method used to study planets’ geochemistry implies that Earth is not unique. Earth-like planets may be common in the universe, a new University of…
Most galaxies lie in clusters containing from a few to thousands of objects. Our Milky Way, for example, belongs to the Local Group, a cluster…
For the first time, astronomers using ALMA have witnessed 3D motions of gas in a planet-forming disk. At three locations in the disk around a…