Herschel Views Star Factory NGC 7538
This new composite image shows NGC 7538, a stellar nursery for massive stars located roughly 9,000 light-years away. The billowing clouds portrayed in this…
This new composite image shows NGC 7538, a stellar nursery for massive stars located roughly 9,000 light-years away. The billowing clouds portrayed in this…
An international team of astronomers has discovered eight new planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars, three of which are classified as habitable-zone super-Earths. The study…
Using multiple telescopes, researchers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered a new super-powered small black hole. A team of Australian and…
Using the VERITAS gamma-ray telescope, astronomers studied a mysterious VHE gamma-ray source from the constellation of Cygnus that has no known counterpart at other wavelengths….
A newly published study reveals that many of the super-Earth planets discovered in the last twenty years may have captured the equivalent of between 100…
A new three-minute ScienceCast video explores the 715 new planets that were just verified by NASA’s Kepler mission. ScienceCasts: A Sudden Multiplication of Planets Years…
This newly released Spitzer image shows the supernova in galaxy M82, the closest supernova of its kind to be observed in the last few decades….
Using a new infrared technique, astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of Tau Boötes b, a hot-Jupiter planet outside our solar system. Water has…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals new insights into how cosmic seeds can grow into massive stars. Cambridge, Massachusetts – New images…
A newly completed statistical study of the optical and infrared properties of 330,811 galaxies traces the evolution of galaxies that host massive black holes. Our…
This newly released Spitzer image shows runaway star Kappa Cassiopeiae, a hot supergiant moving at around 2.5 million mph relative to its neighbors (1,100 kilometers…
Using gamma-ray observations, astronomers discover a record-breaking black widow binary. Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as redbacks, are notorious for their tainted…
A team of researchers has proposed a practical scheme to use photons from causally disconnected cosmic sources to set the detectors in an experimental test…
Using RXTE satellite data, researchers have revealed a dozen instances where X-ray signals from active galaxies dimmed as a result of a cloud of gas…
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array untangles the mysteries of what happens to stars when they explode. One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars…
A newly published study details what happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole, explaining why observers might fail…
A team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the average motion of hundreds of individual stars over a seven-year period, revealing for…
Astronomers have discovered a pulsar that is moving between 2.5 million and 5 million miles per hour with a tail that stretches for 37 light…