New Data from NASA Conflicts with Black Hole ‘Doughnut’ Theory
New data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer reveals a new feature about active black holes, leaving astronomers to reexamining a decades-old theory about the…
New data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer reveals a new feature about active black holes, leaving astronomers to reexamining a decades-old theory about the…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered cosmic clumps within a huge cosmic cloud of gas and dust that cast the deepest…
Scientists from Imperial College London have discovered how to create matter directly from light using the technology that we have today. Imperial physicists have discovered…
Using the Gemini Planet Imager, astronomers have identified the orbit and the size of exoplanet Beta Pictoris b. Using one of the world’s largest telescopes,…
A newly released video from NASA shows a pair of neutron stars colliding and ripping each other apart to form a black hole. This supercomputer…
A new exomoon detection technique is the first method that has been demonstrated to allow detection of moons akin to those in the Solar System….
This newly released Hubble image shows irregularly shaped galaxy NGC 4485. This image shows galaxy NGC 4485 in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting…
Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed nonliving, synthetic materials that can heal and regenerate in a way that is reminiscent of some living…
Using a computer simulation called Illustris, astronomers have created the first realistic virtual universe that starts 12 million years after the Big Bang and traces…
A new fingerprint-like map from the Planck Space Telescope reveals the magnetic field lines of the Milky Way galaxy, allowing astronomers to study the structure…
By using the space between stars and galaxies as a giant lens, astronomers made the highest resolution measurement ever achieved of a distant neutron star….
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have measured the length of an exoplanet day for the first time, revealing that a day on…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a runaway star cluster that is moving at more than two million miles per hour. Cambridge,…
Using the Cosmic Web Imager, astronomers from Caltech have obtained the first three-dimensional pictures of the intergalactic medium. Caltech astronomers have taken unprecedented images of…
Astrophysicists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics examine orbit flips in exoplanet systems, presenting a previously unidentified mechanism whereby such interactions can completely flip the…
A new study reveals that the chemistry of a star’s protoplanetary disc could influence the later composition of planetary atmospheres. Born in a disc of…
Using data from the Kepler spacecraft, researchers from the University of Washington confirm the first “self-lensing” binary star system. What looked at first like a…
This newly released Hubble image shows globular cluster Messier 5, which is located 24,500 light-years away. This sparkling jumble is Messier 5 — a globular…