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The formation of stars in distant galaxies is still largely unexplored. For the first time, astronomers have now been able to closely observe a star system six billion light-years away.
Nov 13th, 2017
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Stars like our Sun eject large amounts of gas and dust into space, containing various elements and compounds. Asymptotic giant branch -- AGB -- phase stars, near their end of life, are particularly significant sources of such substances in our galaxy.
Nov 10th, 2017
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An international team of astronomers discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of 50 years.
Nov 8th, 2017
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These calculations can be used to understand the thermal evolution of neutron stars and white dwarfs.
Nov 7th, 2017
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Astronomy team image one of the first massive galaxies to form, 12.8 billion years ago.
Nov 6th, 2017
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Astronomers observed the galaxy NGC 253 and for the first time, they resolved the locations of star formation in this galaxy down to the scale of a molecular cloud, which is a star formation site with a size of about 30 light-years.
Nov 6th, 2017
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The ALMA Observatory has detected dust around Proxima Centauri. The data also hint at the presence of an outer dust belt and may indicate the presence of a planetary system. These structures are similar to the belts in the solar system and are expected to be made from rock and ice.
Nov 3rd, 2017
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After a five-year, 1.74 billion-mile journey, NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016, to begin its mission to collect data on the structure, atmosphere, and magnetic and gravitational fields of the mysterious planet.
Nov 1st, 2017
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The National Science Foundation has granted $280,000 to an international collaboration that is investigating galaxies that extend along this 'cosmic web' of filaments.
Nov 1st, 2017
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NGTS-1b is the largest planet compared to the size of its companion star ever discovered in universe and contradicts theories that a planet of this size could not be formed by such a small star.
Oct 31st, 2017
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The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions and a prime location for scientists hunting the sources of gravitational waves.
Oct 30th, 2017
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Jupiter's intense northern and southern lights pulse independently of each other according to new research using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories.
Oct 30th, 2017
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An aerospace engineer has built a machine to make water and oxygen from the lunar regolith, powered by solar energy.
Oct 27th, 2017
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Team of professional and citizen scientists identifies tails of comets streaking past a distant star.
Oct 26th, 2017
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One of the most vexing gets at the heart of what our universe is actually made of. Cosmological observations have determined the average density of matter in our universe to very high precision. But this density turns out to be much greater than can be accounted for with ordinary atoms.
Oct 25th, 2017
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Captured using the exceptional sky-surveying abilities of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this deep view reveals the secrets of the luminous members of the Fornax Cluster, one of the richest and closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way.
Oct 25th, 2017
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An international team of astronomers recently discovered that spots on the surface of a supergiant star are driving huge spiral structures in its stellar wind.
Oct 24th, 2017
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Swirling soup of matter's fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado, setting new record for 'vorticity'.
Oct 23rd, 2017
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