Saturn-Like Rings May Have Formed Solar System’s Moons
Earth’s moon might have emerged from a long-vanished ring system, akin to the rings still encircling Saturn, and this could apply to many of the…
Earth’s moon might have emerged from a long-vanished ring system, akin to the rings still encircling Saturn, and this could apply to many of the…
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory and spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W.M. Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomers characterized 767 previously unseen starburst…
While viewing the young brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, an international team of astronomers pinpointed carbon monoxide gas around the brown dwarf and found that the…
A newly published study from astronomers at Ohio University shows that the core of Abell 520 does not appear to be over-dense in dark matter…
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Array radio telescope combine to create this image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A, also known as 3C…
Quantum physicists have shown that superfluid gases can conduct without experiencing any resistance, possibly paving the way to help model the early Universe in the…
A massive black hole, measuring 17 billion times our sun’s mass and more than 11 times as wide as Neptune’s orbit around the sun, could…
A newly published study, which examines how energy is shared between the different species of matter and how it is transferred from strongly heated electrons…
Scientists have discovered a quasar that is at least five times more powerful than any that has been observed to date. Data reveals that a…
In two new studies, scientists use data from the Herschel Space Observatory to find a correlation between the presence of massive debris discs and planetary…
An international team of scientists has conclusively demonstrated a connection between white dwarf stars that fail to completely detonate and a class of oddly dim…
Scientists have discovered l-C3H+ hydrocarbon in the interstellar medium for the first time, finding this molecule in the Horsehead Nebula in the Constellation of Orion….
A newly published study takes a closer look at WASP-12 b, a planet that is being consumed by its own star. A planet roughly 1.4…
The gigantic orange magnets at MIT were originally built decades ago to confine hydrogen nuclei in the search for nuclear fusion. However, since 1998 plasma…
Using the Planck space telescope, scientists discovered a bridge of hot gas connecting galaxy clusters Abell 399 and Abell 401. The temperature of the gas…
Using the High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Adaptive Optics and the Infrared Camera and Spectrograph mounted on the Subaru Telescope, an international…
These new images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, which is located 5,500 light-years away from Earth, show one of the clearest views ever obtained…
A newly published study describes how astrophysicists used simulations, which follow both the rules of general relativity and the laws of magnetism, to demonstrate that…