Jun 30, 2021 by News Staff

Asteroid material in chondritic Vigarano class alteration type 3 (CV3) meteorites provide a good record of complex chemistry present when or before our...

Jun 24, 2021 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from Cornell University and the American Museum of Natural History has identified 1,715 stars within 100 parsecs (326 light-years)...

Jun 18, 2021 by News Staff

In a new study published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers, a team of U.S. researchers analyzed the ages of 89 well-dated geological events of the last...

Jun 15, 2021 by News Staff

According to new research by astronomers from the University of Oxford and University College London, the spin of the bar of our Milky Way Galaxy —...

Jun 11, 2021 by News Staff

A giant star called VVV-WIT-08 exhibited a smooth, eclipse-like drop in brightness to a depth of 97% in 2012; minimum brightness occurred in April 2012...

Jun 3, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Using astrometric, photometric and optical spectroscopy data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the 2MASS survey, astronomers have discovered a large, populous,...

May 31, 2021 by News Staff

A team of radio astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has mapped the entire area of the Stellar Continuum Originating from Radio...

May 31, 2021 by News Staff

Over the course of six years, astronomers with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) surveyed 5,000 square degrees — almost one-eighth of the entire sky —...

May 28, 2021 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, an astronomer from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has...

May 26, 2021 by News Staff

A team of astrophysicists from the United States and Korea has created a new dark-matter distribution map using a neural network-based deep learning method...

May 25, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed UGC 10738, a nearby, edge-on Milky Way-like galaxy,...

May 20, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have discovered 201 pulsars, including currently the faintest pulsars...

May 18, 2021 by News Staff

Recent results based on data from ESA’s Gaia mission have revealed that the stellar content of the inner halo of our Milky Way Galaxy is dominated by...

May 12, 2021 by News Staff

Launched in September 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Jupiter in 1979 and then Saturn in late 1980. In August 2012, it crossed the heliopause...

May 4, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have identified 14 candidate antistars — stars made of antimatter — in...

Apr 26, 2021 by News Staff

Dark matter with masses below 1 GeV can scatter, become captured, deposit annihilation energy, and increase the heat flow within extrasolar gas giants,...

Apr 22, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using data ESA’s Gaia mission and NASA’s Near Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) have created a map of the outermost...

Mar 5, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from the eROSITA X-ray telescope aboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory have detected the largest supernova remnant...

Feb 23, 2021 by News Staff

In a study published in the journal Science Advances, a team of European astronomers shows that water can be delivered to a terrestrial planet in the form...

Feb 9, 2021 by News Staff

Sagittarius A East (Sgr A East), a supernova remnant located strikingly close to the central supermassive black hole of our Milky Way Galaxy, resulted...