The newly-discovered quasar is located approximately 13.03 billion light-years away from Earth. Designated J031343.84-180636.4 (J0313-1806 for short),...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer on the Keck I telescope at the W. M. Keck...
Using the Subaru Telescope and the Keck II telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered and directly imaged a brown dwarf orbiting...
GN-z11, a young but moderately massive galaxy located in the constellation of Ursa Major, is estimated to date from when the Universe was only 420 million...
In 2004, astronomers using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer discovered an unusual, ring-shaped ‘blue’ nebula and the star at its center, TYC 2597-735-1....
Several billion years ago, a short gamma-ray burst unleashed more energy in a half-second than our Sun will produce over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime....
Astronomers using the High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope...
Astronomers have discovered two planets orbiting a bright dwarf star in the binary stellar system Gliese 414.
An artist’s impression of the Gliese 414...
