Astronomers Discover Misaligned Planets in a Distant Planetary System
In a newly published study, researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center and Iowa State University detail the discovery of two planets in the Kepler-56 planetary…
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Astronomers Use Gravitational Waves to Understand Black Hole Growth
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
Astronomers Detect Record Setting Gravitational Lens
Astronomers have detected the most distant gravitational lens yet, a lensing mass so distant that the light, after having been deflected, has traveled 9.4 billion…
Astronomers Shed New Light on the Rarest and Brightest Exploding Stars
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae are the result of a type of explosion within the…
Astronomers Use ALMA to Probe Giant Black Holes
Using data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, two newly published studies probe black hole jets at very different scales: a nearby and relatively quiet black…
Astronomers Discover Clouds of Glowing Hydrogen Gas around a Red Supergiant Star
This newly released image from ESO’s Paranal Observatory shows the super star cluster Westerlund 1 and the newly discovered clouds of glowing hydrogen gas around…
New Survey Maps Where Stars Are Born
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging and mapping more than 6,000 gas clouds and allowing astronomers…
Comet-Like Activity Discovered in Near-Earth Object Don Quixote
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, CfA astronomers discover comet-like activity in Near-Earth Object Don Quixote. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets…
Newly Discovered Planetary Candidates are Nearly Skimming Their Host Star’s Surface
New research presented at the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences details the discovery of planetary candidates with orbital periods as short as four…
Water Discovered in Remnants of Rocky Planetary Body Outside Our Solar System
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the large telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory, scientists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky…
Astronomers Discover a Free-Floating Planet
Using the Pan-STARRS 1 wide-field survey telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered a free-floating planet that is 80 light-years away from Earth. An international…
Carbon-Rich Interior in Super-Earth 55 Cancri e Less Likely Than Previously Thought
A new study shows that planet 55 Cancri e is less likely to consist largely of diamond, revealing that the carbon-to-oxygen ratio appears to be…
Runaway Binary LP 400-22 is Leaving the Galaxy
A new study examines runaway binary LP400-22, providing key insights into runaway stars, white-dwarf binaries, and the complex interactions going on in dense stellar clusters….
Double Star Fomalhaut System is Actually a Triple Star System
New research from scientists at the University of Rochester reveals that the Fomalhaut star system contains a third star, Fomalhaut C. The nearby star system…
ALMA Discovers a Protostar Surrounded by a Large Hot Gas Cloud
An international team of astronomers has observed an infrared dark cloud surrounding a baby star that is about ten times larger than those found around…
Hubblecast Video Explains How Hubble “Looks Back in Time”
This seven-minute Hubblecast video helps explain how Hubble “looks back in time” to see the Universe as it was billions of years ago. Hubblecast 68:…
Astronomers View Distant Galaxy Powered by Primordial Hydrogen
A newly published study details how astronomers detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming…
Updated Theory Details How Biomolecules Were Able to Form Inside Asteroids
In a newly published study, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reexamine the unipolar induction mechanism for heating asteroids, detailing how biomolecules were once able to…
