New tool refines exoplanet search
Astronomers report on a technological upgrade for one method of finding planets or confirming other planetary detections.
Posted: Apr 11th, 2016
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Astronomers discover mysterious alignment of black holes
Deep radio imaging has revealed that supermassive black holes in a region of the distant universe are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction - most likely a result of primordial mass fluctuations in the early universe.
Posted: Apr 11th, 2016
Read moreHot super-Earths stripped by host stars: 'Cooked' planets shrink due to radiation
Astrophysicists have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars.
Posted: Apr 11th, 2016
Read more'Virtual Habitat' software - to Mars and back
Researchers simulate life support systems in space travel.
Posted: Apr 11th, 2016
Read moreBlack hole in a lonely galaxy
Astronomers find unusual descendant of a quasar.
Posted: Apr 7th, 2016
Read more'Smoothed' light will help search for Earth's twins
Physicists have developed optical technology for the 'correction' of light coming from distant stars, which will significantly improve the 'seeing' of telescopes and therefore will enable us to directly observe exoplanets as Earth-twins.
Posted: Mar 30th, 2016
Read moreEarth-space telescope system produces hot surprise
Astronomers using an orbiting radio telescope in conjunction with four ground-based radio telescopes have achieved the highest resolution, or ability to discern fine detail, of any astronomical observation ever made. Their achievement produced a pair of scientific surprises that promise to advance the understanding of quasars, supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies.
Posted: Mar 30th, 2016
Read moreMagnetar could have boosted explosion of extremely bright supernova
Calculations by scientists have found highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars called magnetars could explain the energy source behind two extremely unusual stellar explosions.
Posted: Mar 24th, 2016
Read moreNew research shows quasars slowed star formation
Study finds first observed evidence of galactic-wind phenomenon.
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2016
Read moreA new way to determine the age of stars?
Researchers have developed a new conceptual framework for understanding how stars similar to our Sun evolve. Their framework helps explain how the rotation of stars, their emission of x-rays, and the intensity of their stellar winds vary with time.
Posted: Mar 23rd, 2016
Read moreCaught for the first time: The early flash of an exploding star
NASA's planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, has captured the brilliant flash of an exploding star's shock wave - what astronomers call the 'shock breakout' of a supernova - for the first time in visible light wavelengths.
Posted: Mar 22nd, 2016
Read moreRecord-breaking ultraviolet winds discovered near black hole
The fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths have been discovered near a supermassive black hole.
Posted: Mar 21st, 2016
Read moreMost eccentric planet ever known flashes astronomers with reflected light
A team of researchers has spotted an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen.
Posted: Mar 21st, 2016
Read moreVLA shows earliest stages of planet formation
Astronomers see unprecedented detail of inner portion of protoplanetary disk.
Posted: Mar 18th, 2016
Read moreHubble unveils monster stars
An international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 with the unprecedented ultraviolet spatial resolution of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph to successfully dissect the young star cluster R136 in the ultraviolet for the first time.
Posted: Mar 18th, 2016
Read moreExtreme energy source at heart of the Milky Way
H.E.S.S telescopes observe cosmic rays accelerated by giant black hole.
Posted: Mar 17th, 2016
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