Astronomers View Light Show Associated With Gravitational Waves
Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, astronomers have detected gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, or light, from the same event for the…
Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, astronomers have detected gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, or light, from the same event for the…
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have observed a visible counterpart to gravitational waves for the first time: a kilonova from merging neutron stars….
A new study reveals evidence that the brightest stellar explosions in our universe could be triggered by the helium nuclear explosion at the surface of…
Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spatially resolve the dust disk around the young protostar known as HH-212. Stars form as gravity contracts the…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Swift missions, as well as the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory, astronomers reveal new details on one of the most mysterious stellar…
By combining data from different telescopes, astronomers have discovered five new pairs of merging supermassive black holes. Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual…
New observations from ALMA reveal the first detection ever of an organohalogen, Methyl chloride (CH3Cl), in interstellar space. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
Different methods of studying cosmic expansion yield slightly different results, including for the age of the universe. In a new study, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian…
Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors….
NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating charged particles to solve one of its biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars: space radiation and…
Using radio and X-ray data, astronomers reveal that the mini-halo in the Perseus cluster seems to be influenced both by the AGN activity and the…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that fast radio bursts should occur over the entire observable universe, with at least one FRB…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered two asteroids orbiting each other that have comet-like features in the asteroid belt. These include a bright halo…
New research from Yale University and the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey reveals that the Milky Way might not be as “typical” as previously…
ALMA reveals a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae, helping astronomers to better understand…
Astronomers observed V745 Sco about two weeks after its most recent outburst in 2014 with Chandra, enabling them to generate this new 3D model that…
New research from Notre Dame lends support to an existing theory of how binary star system AR Scorpii emits energy. Astronomers studying the unique binary…
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers measures how a galaxy’s spin affects its shape. It sounds simple, but measuring a galaxy’s true…