Understanding the Evolution of Organic Molecules in Our Solar System
A newly published study from scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides the first direct look at the organic chemistry that takes place on icy…
A newly published study from scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides the first direct look at the organic chemistry that takes place on icy…
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera is the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created and has captured and recorded its…
Scientists at CfA have taken an important step in determining the distance of the remnant of Kepler’s supernova, concluding that the remnant distance is probably…
For the first time, a team of astronomers have spotted two new “Hot Jupiter” planets, called Pr0201b and Pr0211b, orbiting sun-like stars in the Beehive…
Astronomers have redefined one of the most commonly used stellar distances, the astronomical unit (AU). Based on the rough distance from Sol to Earth, AU…
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that the recently discovered cloud of hydrogen and helium plunging toward the galactic center represents the shredded…
After a two-year study, a team of astronomers at the University of Portsmouth and LMU University Munich have concluded that the likelihood of the existence…
Alex Parker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Institute for Theory and Computation, incorporated sound and audio to astronomical images to create…
Using the NRO 45m Telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory, scientists discovered a “pigtail” molecular cloud, located in the Galactic center, approximately 30,000 light-years away from…
A newly published study details the discovery of glycolaldehyde, a simple sugar, in the material around a newly developing star that is roughly the size…
The Planck Satellite has observed a very unique emission of radio radiation from the center of the Milky Way, moving scientists closer than ever to…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Max-Planck-ESO telescope, this composite image shows a superbubble in NGC 1929, which…
A recently published study details how scientists used light from an exploding star as a probe to study the gas conditions in the space between…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers discovered molecules of a simple form of sugar in the gas surrounding a young binary…
Discovered last year in system J0651, two white dwarf stars are so close together that they make a complete orbit in less than 13 minutes…
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The planets are in the Kepler-47 system, which is located…
Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Magellan telescopes in Chile, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, and other facilities, a team of astronomers discovered the…
Launched roughly 35 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 spacecraft are poised to make new discoveries as scientists eagerly await for signs that…