Astronomers Use “Characterization by Proxy” to Learn the Nature of Kepler-61
Using “characterization by proxy” and observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, researchers take a closer look at Kepler-61b, a planet orbiting near the inner edge…
Using “characterization by proxy” and observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, researchers take a closer look at Kepler-61b, a planet orbiting near the inner edge…
Observations of a newly discovered pulsar and its white dwarf companion, orbiting each other once every two and a half hours, show that the binary’s…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers observed 20 nearby galaxies, some of which were known to be undergoing a starburst, finding that the winds accompanying…
In a new study, researchers suggest that white dwarfs can still support habitable planets, demonstrating that the James Webb Space Telescope, set to be launched…
A new e-MERLIN image of Betelgeuse reveals two hot spots that appear on the sides of the star with temperatures much higher than the average…
Follow NASA’s Voyager spacecraft as they head towards interstellar space with NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System program. A gauge on the Voyager home page…
In a newly published study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis report finding tiny grains of silica, which they believe came from a core-collapse…
Using Hubble, WISE and the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French Alps, astronomers viewed efficient star-making galaxy SDSSJ1506+54, seeing a rare phase of…
By using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies, researchers have developed a method with the potential to…
In a newly published study, astronomers investigate the links between supernova remnants and cosmic rays. Using a new optical spectrometer to analyze the shock activity…
In a new paper, astronomers explore the properties Kelper 62e and 62f, which are part of the five-planet system orbiting the star Kepler-62, suggesting that…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers noticed that the emission spectrum from blazar PKS 1424+240 deviated from what was expected, possibly indicating something…
A newly released image of SN 1006 provides new details about the remains of an exploded star that was witnessed from Earth over a millennium…
By improving an algorithm that is important for studying quasars, astrophysicists determined the radio and optical luminosity evolutions for a set of more than 5000…
A large team of astronomers has discovered the earliest starburst galaxy ever observed. Occurring just 880 million years after the Big Bang, HFLS3 is a…
SuperCDMS researchers have for the first time observed a concrete hint of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), the particle physicists believe to be behind…
In three new studies, astronomers discuss the three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions that were discovered by NASA’s Swift satellite and represent a previously unrecognized class…
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration recently presented its blind-analysis dark matter search results from data taken with silicon detectors during CDMS II operation…