Study Reveals It’s Almost Impossible for Life to Exist on ‘Super-Earths’
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 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…
Astrophysicists re-create and explain nearly all the components seen in the X-ray spectra of stellar-mass black holes. Black holes may be dark, but the areas…
A new theoretical paper from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics finds there is a way in principle to make a black hole with…
Newly published research uses IBEX data to paint a better picture of the magnetic system that surrounds us, offering an explanation for a decades-old mystery…
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected chemical change in the transition zone between the infalling envelope and the gas disk around young protostar L1527. The international…