Astronomers Determine the Size and Mass of Super-Earth HD 97658b
Using the Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars (MOST) space telescope, astronomers were able to estimate the true size and mass of super-Earth HD 97658b for…
Using the Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars (MOST) space telescope, astronomers were able to estimate the true size and mass of super-Earth HD 97658b for…
Researchers from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University have published a new study that used computer simulations of cloud behavior to help suggest that…
Astronomers used the Very Large Array radio telescopes to track the motions of the gas near radio Source I in the Orion Nebula for over…
Research presented at the 2013 RAS National Astronomy Meeting describes a new quasar microlensing technique that should allow astronomers to better map out the internal…
A newly published study describes recent observations of the remnant of a stellar collision, revealing that the remnant of the stripped red giant is a…
Now more than 18 billion kilometers away from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 is close to entering interstellar space. Using data from the spacecraft’s journey, several…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute used some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to generate elaborate computer simulations showing the violent birth…
A newly published study from the University of Colorado suggests that spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, are larger than previously thought. Let’s all fist…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered new details about the remains of a supernova that is the most recent, in Earth’s time frame,…
A team of astronomers have discovered two planets (Kepler-66b and Kepler-67b) that are about three-fourths the size of Neptune orbiting Sun-like stars 3,000 light-years from…
By adding HARPS observations, along with data from several other telescopes, to previous data about Gliese 667C, a team of astronomers discovered that this system…
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, two new studies detail the discovery of raw materials used in the making of stars. A CSIRO radio telescope…
New data from supernova SN 2012fr has allowed scientists to better calibrate all Type Ia Supernova observations to measure distances in the Universe, using…
New observations of our Sun, combined with computer modeling, have helped astronomers resolve a decade-long argument over how to measure the accretion rates of growing…
This new Hubble Space telescope image shows two interacting galaxies, spiral galaxy NGC 2936 and elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, which are collectively known as Arp…
Using the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope, a team of astronomers have discovered pulsations from the crystalized remnant of the burnt-out star GD 518. Austin —…
Using the combined power of the Unit Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gathered new data on dust around the black hole at…
The SNfactory has released a new dataset based on 32 nights of repeated observations of supernova 2011fe, beginning two weeks before the supernova reached its…