Patterns of Light Appear to be From the First Stars and Galaxies
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one and now astronomers from Penn State have precisely…
With the Venus transit set to occur, researchers will also be studying the Arc of Venus to better under why our sister planet’s atmosphere evolved…
Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that a supermassive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of at least…
Tomorrow, June 5, 2012, will provide astronomers and enthusiasts with a chance to view a very rare phenomenon known as the Venus Transit, which doesn’t…
It’s been known for years that the Andromeda galaxy would collide with the Milky Way, two of the largest galaxies in the Local Group, in…
Limited by today’s telescope technology, an international team of astronomers searched for another way to probe supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. By analyzing data…
Using observations made with radio telescopes, astronomer Dr. Braun has discovered that the galaxies around us are hiding about a third more atomic hydrogen gas…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute believe that they now know where the methane on Mars is originating from. In their published work, the scientists…
The transit of Venus will occur on June 5 and if you miss it, you won’t get to see it again until 2117. For those…
This new image of spiral galaxy ESO 498-G5 was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and shows the disc-type bulges, or pseudobulges, that this type…
Venus is set to pass across the face of the sun in just a few days, giving astronomers around the world a view of the…
A large group of scientists is using radio images from the International LOFAR Telescope to study Abell 2256 and the collisions that this cluster, which…
The time to study the cosmos is now. New calculations show that the expansion of the cosmos is accelerating, galaxies are being pushed beyond our…
By combining observations from the Large Area Telescope and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, scientists have found a new technique for hunting pulsars. The…
In an effort to further piece cosmic evolution together, astronomers have been using a combination of modern telescopes and infrared and submillimeter techniques. Using the…
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain why some supernova explosions are more powerful than others, supporting the idea that some of…
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of the sophisticated astronomy and the time-keeping rituals of the ancient Mayan people, deep under the earth in the…