If Life Can Travel Between The Stars We Should Be Able To Detect It
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that if life can travel between the stars (in a process called panspermia), it would…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that if life can travel between the stars (in a process called panspermia), it would…
This newly released Hubble image shows the Twin Jet Nebula, which is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. Astronomers have shown that the…
This new image from ESA’s Herschel space observatory reveals fierce flashes of light rippling through delicate tendrils of gas in the heart of a large…
Physicists are working on a new theory to detect dark matter. They believe that dark matter particles annihilate into “dark radiation” when they collide and…
Using the XMM-Newton X-ray Satellite, astronomers from the Max Planck Institute observe the events around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way….
The Dark Energy Survey has discovered 17 dwarf galaxy candidates in the past six months, leaving scientists to believe that there could be many more…
Using the Gemini Planet Imager, astronomers have discovered a young Jupiter-like planet that is 100 light-years away. One of the best ways to learn how…
A new analysis of 13 supernovae is helping to reveal how some young stars exploded sooner than expected, hurling them to a lonely place far…
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly project released its first data at the International Astronomical Union XXIX General Assembly in Hawaii, revealing that the Universe is…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe’s largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak…
A newly published study from Yale University gives astronomers a clearer view of how powerful cosmic winds can blow through galaxies, sweeping out interstellar material…
New NASA experiments reveal that vitamin B3 and other complex organic compounds could be made in space and it is plausible that meteorite and comet…
A fundamentally new mathematical formulation from Vanderbilt University has some significant implications for the ultimate fate of the universe. The universe can be a very…
Artist’s illustration of a star with an Earth-like planet. Credit: IAC A newly published study has shown with high precision that even stars older than…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope with help from the W. M. Keck Observatory, the Subaru Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of…
Follow along as researchers discuss the search for evidence of habitability in our solar system and beyond during the 2015 Astrobiology Science Conference. NASA and…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope reveals for the first time what appears to be an aging star in the early stages of forming a butterfly-like planetary…