Infrared Dark Clouds Reveal Why Some Stars are Bigger than Others
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…
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…
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for determining the mass of exoplanets using only their transit signal, helping researchers determine the mass of exoplanets…
In a new study, researchers show that two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever discovered (SNLS 06D4eu and SNLS 07D2bv) are likely powered…
By observing the last major growth spurt of galaxy clusters, which happened billions of years ago, a newly published Spitzer study examines the rise and…
A new Hubblecast video explores the striking new Hubble observations of a variable star known as RS Puppis. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered a comet belt around Fomalhaut C. The nearby star Fomalhaut A hosts the…
Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope present optical and X-ray observations of two tidally distorted, extremely low-mass white dwarfs (WDs)…
Detailed analysis of the recently discovered Luhman 16AB system has revealed that the pair of failed stars may be harboring a planet. Pasadena, California —…
Researchers used the Submillimeter Array at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to view star cluster W49A, revealing an intricate network of filaments feeding star-building material…
In this newly released image, Hubble and Herschel view the Crab Nebula. This image shows a composite view of the Crab Nebula, an iconic…
Using data from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have found the first evidence of a noble-gas based molecule in space – a compound of argon…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that fast radio bursts might come from nearby flaring stars, rather than more energetic events…
New research challenges astronomers’ traditional views about stellar birthplaces, finding that giant molecular clouds are embedded in a kind of molecular fog, which permeates the…
Astronomers detail the magnetic fields at the heart of GRB 120308A, which was detected by NASA’s Swift satellite in the constellation Ursa Minor. A new…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers reveal never-before-seen details and present the most sensitive maps yet of HCN and HCO+ in the starburst galaxy M82….
A new study from an international team of researchers has measured the lowest dust mass of a galaxy to date, leaving the researchers to believe…
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that is unlike anything in our own Solar System. HD 106906 b has 11 times the mass of Jupiter and…
New research reveals the explosive growth of a young star, detailing that the newly formed star had such an explosive growth that it was initially…