Hubble Discovers Iax Supernova Linked to Potential “Zombie Star”
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to view the light of a star that had lost its outer hydrogen envelope after a Type Iax supernova…
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to view the light of a star that had lost its outer hydrogen envelope after a Type Iax supernova…
The recent approval of a sublease brings the most advanced and powerful optical telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), one step closer to reality. With…
A new study details the discovery of a Y dwarf (WISE J0304-2705) that may have spent much of its youth as hot as a star….
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics measure for the first time small fluctuations in the Sagittarius A* flux over 23 continuous hours. The center…
NASA’s EUNIS sounding rocket mission has discovered evidence to explain why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, detecting the strongest evidence…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a gravitational lens, breaking the previous record-holder by 200 million…
New research from UK Infra-Red Telescope reveals numerous unknown jets of gas from young stars and planetary nebulae and may prompt significant changes in the…
Using ALMA, astronomers have discovered wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. Astronomers using the Atacama…
In a newly published study, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveal silicon-capped hydrocarbons as the possible source of the mysterious “diffuse interstellar bands.”…
An international group of researchers has demonstrated a more accurate method for measuring the mass of galaxies, revealing that the Milky Way has only about…
New research resolves a decades-old puzzle about a fog of low-energy X-rays observed over the entire sky, confirming the long-held suspicion that much of this…
In a newly published study, astronomers detail the results of a photometric search for variable stars in the core of the globular cluster M4. A…
Astronomers used almost 200 images of distant galaxies combined with Hubble data to measure the total mass of galaxy cluster MCS J0416.1–2403 more precisely than…
New images from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal surface structures of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, allowing scientists to create a 3D shape model of the nucleus. As the…
Scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside our solar system, confirming Kepler-93b as a “super-Earth” that is…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that three exoplanets that were thought to be ideal candidates for detecting water vapor in their atmospheres contain…
Scientists are taking a new approach in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, studying exoplanet atmospheres for signs of pollution. Humanity is on the threshold of…
A newly published study shows that modifying the standard cosmological model in order to include fairly massive neutrinos does not explain all the physical observations…