Unlike Anything in Our Solar System: Rocky Exoplanets Are Even Stranger Than We Thought
A new astrogeology study suggests that most nearby rocky exoplanets are quite unlike anything in our Solar System. An astronomer from NSF’s NOIRLab has teamed…
A new astrogeology study suggests that most nearby rocky exoplanets are quite unlike anything in our Solar System. An astronomer from NSF’s NOIRLab has teamed…
About a kilometer across, space rock 2021 PH27 is the Sun’s nearest neighbor. Using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers recently…
Astronomers Uncover Briefest Supernova-Powered Gamma-Ray Burst Gemini North identifies collapsing star as the surprising cause of a “fizzled” gamma-ray burst. Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever…
Stunning new images of Jupiter from Gemini North and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcase the planet at infrared, visible, and ultraviolet wavelengths of light….
Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031. A giant comet from the…
Astronomers studying stellar pairs uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets than previously thought. Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half…
Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution First three years of survey data uses observations of 226 million galaxies over ⅛…
Gemini North spectroscopically resolves a pair of quasars that are closer together than any yet discovered in the distant Universe. Astronomers have found two close…
Astronomers at Western University have discovered the most rapidly rotating brown dwarfs known. They found three brown dwarfs that each complete a full rotation roughly…
Machine learning is key to the discovery of over 1200 gravitational lenses. Data from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Imaging Surveys have revealed…
Astronomers are Bulging with Data Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way For the first time, over 250 million stars in…
The Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel The Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was originally designed for the Dark Energy Survey, has captured one of the…
Gemini North helps define remote object’s distance and orbit. With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, and other ground-based…
Giant Map of the Sky Sets Stage for Ambitious DESI Survey Astronomers using images from Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have…
The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, observed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than…
The U.S. NSF’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope just released its first image of a sunspot. The telescope’s four-meter primary mirror will give the best…
On November 18 scientists from the US National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory predicted the emergence of a new sunspot group just in time for…
An international team of astronomers using Gemini North’s GNIRS instrument have discovered that CK Vulpeculae, first seen as a bright new star in 1670, is…