Astronomers reveal that previously reported measurements attributed to the effects of cosmic inflation are instead almost certainly due to the effects of galactic dust. The…
New research reveals that three billion years after the Big Bang, massive elliptical galaxies still made stars on their outskirts, but no longer in their…
A newly published study uses the impact heat signatures in meteorites to date the Moon-forming impact between a large protoplanet and proto-Earth. The inner Solar…
By combining data from Chandra and several other telescopes, researchers think they have discovered the remains of a planet that may have been ripped apart…
Scientists have created the largest single high definition map of dark matter, helping researchers understand the role that dark matter plays in galaxy formation. Scientists…
Using new Hubble Space Telescope imaging and VLT/MUSE integral field spectroscopy, astronomers reveal what may be the first signs of self-interacting dark matter. For the…
Using a method called microlensing, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and OGLE’s Warsaw Telescope teamed up to reveal a remote gas planet that is located about…
A newly published study reveals that Nova Vul 1670 is not only rich in molecular species, its gas has dramatically unusual isotopic abundances (that is,…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have detected the presence of complex organic molecules in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, indicating that…
Using data from Venus Express, researchers show how the impact of a slow Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) can have profound effects on planets without…
New research provides the most complete picture yet of how galaxies like the Milky Way grew over the past 10 billion years into today’s majestic…
New research examines what creates the magnetic bands on the Sun and how they influence solar cycles, revealing that the changes in the magnetic field…
A newly published study reveals that supernova remnant 3C 397 is the remains a single white dwarf that accumulated matter from a normal companion star….
Astronomers have identified eight galaxies with bright active nuclei that have illuminated material far outside the radius of the galaxy. The eerie structures have looping,…
By using data from ESA’s Herschel and Planck space observatories, astronomers have discovered what could be the precursors of the vast clusters of galaxies that…
In a new study, astronomers used mathematical analysis and simulations to show that it is possible for a rocky planet to form around binary stars….
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that magnetic fields influence star formation on a variety of scales, from hundreds of…
New VLT observations confirm that the dusty gas cloud G2 made its closest approach to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky…
