BOSS Measures the Scale of the Universe to an Accuracy of One Percent
Using data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, researchers announced that they have measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent….
Using data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, researchers announced that they have measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent….
A newly published study details the discovery of a new class of “hypervelocity stars” – stars that are moving at speeds of more than a…
New observations obtained as part of the Hubble Tarantula Treasury Program view deep inside the Tarantula Nebula, revealing more than 800,000 stars and protostars embedded…
A newly published study reveals that the odds of Super-Earth exoplanets having an Earth-like climate are much greater than previously thought. Massive terrestrial planets, called…
New data from NASA’s Swift spacecraft have led to the discovery of a rare subclass of neutron stars and will help astronomers decipher the physical…
While combing through several years of Chandra data, researchers discovered a black hole destroying a star in the galaxy cluster Abell 1795. A bright, long-duration…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers discovered more than 100 dwarf galaxies with massive black holes, providing an important step toward understanding…
New research with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed four unusually bright galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago, the deepest image ever obtained…
While searching Kepler data for exomoons, astronomers discovered the first Earth-mass planet that crosses in front of its host star. Cambridge, Massachusetts – An international…
Using NASA’s Fermi observatory, researchers have made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, opening new avenues for research and providing a new way…
Astronomers used ALMA to observe the remains of Supernova 1987A, seeing for the first time the remains of a recent supernova brimming with freshly formed…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered a triple star system with two white dwarfs and a neutron star. Astronomers using the National Science…
New research from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array makes disk fragmentation the strongest explanation for how close multiple star systems are formed. Using…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers from the University of Chicago have detected clear evidence of clouds in the atmosphere of exoplanet GJ1214b….
This eight-minute Hubblecast video takes a look at gravitational lensing, explaining how it works and how it can help astronomers uncover the secrets of the…
In a review paper, Stefano Liberati provides a systematic overview of the experiments and observations that can be exploited to investigate deviations from Special Relativity….
In a new study, astronomers detail the discovery of a gamma-ray burst without a radio afterglow. Astronomers led by a Curtin University researcher have discovered…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers surveyed the cores of some of the darkest, coldest, and densest clouds in our Galaxy to find…