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An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light-years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.
Feb 1st, 2018
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An international team of astrophysicists has released IllustrisTNG, the most advanced universe model of its kind.
Feb 1st, 2018
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An international team of astronomers finds signs that the outer halo of the Milky Way contains stellar remains of massive dwarf galaxies that were devoured by our own.
Jan 31st, 2018
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An international group of scientists has discovered a peculiar spiral jet with many twists.
Jan 31st, 2018
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A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by the brilliant light of new stars. This dense cloud is a star-forming region called Lupus 3, where dazzlingly hot stars are born from collapsing masses of gas and dust.
Jan 31st, 2018
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New observations in the Large Magellanic Cloud have uncovered the surprisingly clear chemical 'fingerprints' of the complex organic molecules methanol, dimethyl ether, and methyl formate.
Jan 30th, 2018
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Space physicists have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system).
Jan 30th, 2018
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New theory predicts origins of molecules in destructive cosmic outflows.
Jan 30th, 2018
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Scientists teach machines to analyze simulations of exotic subatomic 'soup'.
Jan 30th, 2018
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Scientists have solved an important puzzle in astrochemistry: how to measure magnetic fields in space using methanol, the simplest form of alcohol. Their results give astronomers a new way of investigating how massive stars are born.
Jan 29th, 2018
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Scientists discover supernova's ignition mechanism.
Jan 29th, 2018
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How an international team of researchers is constraining the speed of invisible and undetectable dark matter.
Jan 24th, 2018
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An international team of astronomers has produced the first detailed images of the surface of a giant star outside our solar system, revealing a nearly circular, dust-free atmosphere with complex areas of moving material, known as convection cells or granules.
Jan 23rd, 2018
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Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets.
Jan 18th, 2018
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In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns -- so it's little wonder that it has earned the nickname of El Gordo ('the Fat One' in Spanish).
Jan 17th, 2018
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Astronomers have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun -- the first such inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster and the first found by directly detecting its gravitational pull.
Jan 17th, 2018
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