ASKAP Telescope Predicted to Find 700,000 New Galaxies
Scientists are predicting that the new ASKAP galaxy surveys, WALLABY and DINGO, will find an amazing 700,000 new galaxies, spread over trillions of cubic light…
Scientists are predicting that the new ASKAP galaxy surveys, WALLABY and DINGO, will find an amazing 700,000 new galaxies, spread over trillions of cubic light…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Fleming 1 is likely to have two white dwarfs at its center, circling each…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a new Earth-like planet, known as HD 40307g, that may be capable of supporting life and is located…
The above composite image of star cluster Cygnus OB2, which is located about 5,000 light-years from Earth, contains X-rays from Chandra, infrared data from Spitzer,…
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, emits relatively little energy for its size, as much energy as Sol…
Astronomers have discovered a pair of superluminous supernovae, which are more than 10 billion years old. The Universe was only 3.75 billion years old back…
A newly published study encompasses thirty years of research on hypergiant HR 8752, a star that is roughly 250 times brighter than our Sun and…
Instruments aboard Curiosity have analyzed samples of the atmosphere collected near the “Rocknest” site in Gale Crater, finding that the top of the Martian atmosphere…
Years before the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched in 2018, astronomers and engineers had already started working on the USA’s next space telescope,…
A newly published study from a team of scientists suggests and explains how asteroid belts may be important both for the existence of life and…
Using the Herschel Space Telescope and a method known as raytracing, a team of scientists produced a 3-D map of the dark cloud Barnard 68…
New data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a close up of the Canuleia Crater on the asteroid Vesta, illustrating the structure of the interior of…
Located about 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Ara, globular cluster NGC 6362 contains many blue stragglers, stars that appear younger and bluer…
Using its Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument, NASA’s Curiosity rover has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils…
In this color composite image of the RCW 120 nebula (above), an expanding bubble of ionized gas, about ten light-years across, is revealed. It is…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues its research on Mars. The latest images were taken by its Mars Hand Lens Imager and show diverse rocks found in…
Using a new a new data analysis method, a team of scientists discovered a millisecond pulsar solely via its pulsed gamma radiation. Pulsars are the…
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a team of scientists have discovered a band of stars, named the Triangulum stream, in the southern Galactic sky…