Citizen Scientists Discover Giant Jupiter-Like Planet in NASA TESS Data
Tom Jacobs of Bellevue, Washington, loves treasure hunts. Since 2010, the former U.S. naval officer has participated in online volunteer projects that allow anyone who…
Tom Jacobs of Bellevue, Washington, loves treasure hunts. Since 2010, the former U.S. naval officer has participated in online volunteer projects that allow anyone who…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous records for three-dimensional…
An exomoon signal found in archival data hints at the possibility of more discoveries to come. Astronomers have reported a second, super-sized moon orbiting a…
New treasure trove of globular clusters holds clues about galaxy evolution. Using observations of the nearby elliptical galaxy Centaurus A, a team of astronomers led…
UC Riverside astrophysicist explains the science. The James Webb Space Telescope, the most complex and expensive space laboratory ever created, is less than two weeks…
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) made a rare detection of a likely stellar…
Investigated by the SOAR Telescope operated by NOIRLab, the binary system is the first to be found at the penultimate stage of its evolution. Using…
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing today…
A multinational team of astronomers, including scientists from the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Gravity Wave Astronomy, has reported the findings of a comprehensive search…
Scientists have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This unusual set of features…
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in the dwarf galaxy Mrk 462 with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The percentage of these galaxies that have…
Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams…
Two Hawai’i Telescopes Capture a Massive Star Moments Before Going Supernova For the very first time, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end…
About 400,000 years after the universe was created began a period called “The Epoch of Reionization.” During this time, the once hotter universe began to…
Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dark patches of cold dust and gas seen in the sky against the bright diffuse infrared glow of warm dust…
98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such…
The search for signatures of quantum gravity forges ahead. From a distance, sand dunes seem flat and wrinkle-free, like silk sheets covering the desert. However,…
One of the characteristic features of modern cosmology is its description of how galaxies evolve: via a hierarchical process of colliding and merging with other…