Record-breaking ultraviolet winds discovered near black hole
The fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths have been discovered near a supermassive black hole.
Mar 21st, 2016
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Most 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.
Mar 21st, 2016
Read moreVLA shows earliest stages of planet formation
Astronomers see unprecedented detail of inner portion of protoplanetary disk.
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.
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.
Mar 17th, 2016
Read moreGravity glasses offer a view of the Earth's interior
How does the ice on the polar caps change? And which are the geological characteristics of the Earth's crust beneath? What is the structure of the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle? Geophysicists will be able to answer these questions in the future using gravity field measurements from ESA's GOCE gravity satellite.
Mar 14th, 2016
Read moreMysterious infrared light from space resolved perfectly
A research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the faintest millimeter-wave source ever observed. By accumulating millimeter-waves from faint objects like this throughout the Universe, the team finally determined that such objects are 100% responsible for the enigmatic infrared background light filling the Universe.
Mar 10th, 2016
Read moreClocking the rotation rate of a supermassive black hole
A recent observational campaign involving more than two dozen optical telescopes and NASA's space based SWIFT X-ray telescope allowed a team of astronomers to measure very accurately the rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe.
Mar 10th, 2016
Read moreDark matter satellites trigger massive birth of stars
Astronomers use computer simulations based on theoretical models to explain massive star formation observed in dwarf galaxies.
Mar 10th, 2016
Read moreHigh-energy cosmic rays: Galactic or extragalactic?
It appears that radio-wave measurements have discovered a new component of the Galactic cosmic ray population.
Mar 4th, 2016
Read moreHubble team breaks cosmic distance record
By pushing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This surprisingly bright infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang.
Mar 3rd, 2016
Read moreSurf's up on Saturn's geologically active moon Titan
In the shadow of Saturn's hulking planetary mass, Titan's liquid hydrocarbon seas seem a bit choppy, astronomers say.
Mar 2nd, 2016
Read moreCelestial bodies born like cracking paint
Volumes under internal tension crack hierarchically, revealing how gravity created the universe's wide variety of body sizes.
Mar 2nd, 2016
Read moreWhy celestial bodies come in different sizes
Researchers find that a universe that contains some big objects and many small objects relieves gravitational tension faster than a uniform universe.
Mar 1st, 2016
Read moreThe origins of the universe
An in-depth look at the origins of matter and the environmental conditions that helped shape the universe today.
Mar 1st, 2016
Read moreWhat if extraterrestrial observers called, but nobody heard?
Researchers say the best chance for finding a signal from beyond Earth is to presume extraterrestrial observers are using the same methods to search for us that we are using to search for life beyond Earth.
Mar 1st, 2016
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