NASA to Look Deeper Into the Universe than Ever Before
NASA researchers are teaming up in the new collaborative program called The Frontier Fields to look deeper into the universe than ever before, working together…
NASA researchers are teaming up in the new collaborative program called The Frontier Fields to look deeper into the universe than ever before, working together…
Using Chandra’s high-resolution data collected from 1999 to 2011, astronomers reveal for the first time abrupt variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding…
A newly published study details the discovery of the most distant galaxy ever found. Dubbed z8_GND_5296, the galaxy is seen as it was at a…
Astronomers have discovered that Milky Way makes small wobbling or squishing movements, acting like a huge flag fluttering in the wind. 22 October 2013. Astronomers…
After four plus years of service, scientists prepare the Planck satellite for its final shutdown and for permanent safe disposal. In preparation for its final…
Using a novel astronomical survey software system, the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), astronomers have identified the first progenitor of a stripped envelope supernova. In…
In a newly published study, researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center and Iowa State University detail the discovery of two planets in the Kepler-56 planetary…
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
Astronomers have detected the most distant gravitational lens yet, a lensing mass so distant that the light, after having been deflected, has traveled 9.4 billion…
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae are the result of a type of explosion within the…
Using data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, two newly published studies probe black hole jets at very different scales: a nearby and relatively quiet black…
This newly released image from ESO’s Paranal Observatory shows the super star cluster Westerlund 1 and the newly discovered clouds of glowing hydrogen gas around…
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging and mapping more than 6,000 gas clouds and allowing astronomers…
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, CfA astronomers discover comet-like activity in Near-Earth Object Don Quixote. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets…
New research presented at the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences details the discovery of planetary candidates with orbital periods as short as four…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the large telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory, scientists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky…
Using the Pan-STARRS 1 wide-field survey telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered a free-floating planet that is 80 light-years away from Earth. An international…
A new study shows that planet 55 Cancri e is less likely to consist largely of diamond, revealing that the carbon-to-oxygen ratio appears to be…