Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reveals Treasure Trove of “Red Nugget” Galaxies
At this year’s meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, astronomers revealed a treasure trove of “red nugget” galaxies discovered by combing through the Sloan Digital…
At this year’s meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, astronomers revealed a treasure trove of “red nugget” galaxies discovered by combing through the Sloan Digital…
A new study reveals that radio signals generated from Jupiter could help researchers scan its giant moons for extraterrestrial life. Powerful radio signals that Jupiter…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have directly mapped out the molecular gas and dust in the host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts for the…
This new animated image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows Mercury passing in front of the Sun. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has imaged the planet Mercury…
A new study led by Marcel Pawlowski at Case Western Reserve University pokes holes in the current understanding of galaxy formation and questions the accepted…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has recorded three X-class flares emitted from the Sun in the last two days. The sun emitted a significant solar flare,…
This newly released image reveals a sample of the 132 trans-Neptunian objects observed by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory. ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics follows up on Kepler’s discoveries, revealing that exoplanets can be divided into three groups: terrestrials,…
New research presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society reveals that harsh space weather may strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting…
This newly released Hubble image shows type II Seyfert galaxy NGC 3081, which is located over 86 million light-years from Earth. Taking center stage in…
The Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) has been installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, providing astronomers with impressive views of dust discs around nearby…
A new study from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics reveals the turbulent nature of black holes, showing that gravitational fields around black holes might…
By using refined techniques to compare the measurements of oxygen isotopes in lunar samples with those from Earth, a team of astronomers has provided new…
This new image reveals a violent, complex scene of colliding galaxy clusters more than 5 billion light-years from Earth. Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky…
A team of astronomers has discovered the first Thorne-Żytkow object, a hybrid star formed by the interaction of a red supergiant and a neutron star…
New research from the Berkeley Lab systematically measures the strength of magnetic fields near black holes for the first time, revealing that the measured magnetic…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that planets Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c will be swallowed by their star, providing a glimpse into the future…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers examined a rare example of Type Ia explosion in which a dead star “fed” off an aging…