An open cluster called NGC 1605 is in fact two merging open clusters with evidence of tidal streams, according to new research by Professor Denilso Camargo...
New research led by the Observatoire astronomique de l’Université de Genève suggests that water never condensed and that, consequently, oceans never...
Using a technique called gravitational microlensing, which occurs when a star close to Earth momentarily aligns with a more distant star, astronomers have...
Astronomers using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a large radio telescope network located mainly in the Netherlands, have detected coherent low-frequency...
An international team of scientists has analyzed a diverse set of presolar grains with the goal of realizing their true stellar origins.
Palmerini et al....
The surface pressure on the dwarf planet Pluto is decreasing and that its nitrogen atmosphere is condensing, forming ice on the dwarf planet’s surface,...
Astronomers have discovered a highly-irradiated gas giant exoplanet in close-in, highly misaligned orbit around a bright star called TOI-1518.
An artist’s...
New research led by University of Hong Kong astronomers shows that a fast expanding nebula called Pa 30 surrounding the hot Wolf-Rayet star IRAS 00500+6713...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the brilliance of a globular cluster called Palomar 6.
This Hubble image shows the...
The intermediate-mass black hole in question was caught in the act of swallowing a star, called a tidal disruption event. Dubbed 3XMM J215022.4-055108,...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have mapped out 18 organic and inorganic molecules in protoplanetary disks around...
The new composite images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveal the dual nature of the giant star AG Carinae.
This Hubble image shows a giant...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have measured the metallicity of the neutral interstellar medium towards 25 bright stars in our Milky...
Ultradiffuse galaxies are dwarf galaxies whose stars are spread out over a vast region, resulting in extremely low brightness, making them very difficult...
Using high-resolution observational of two very similar globular clusters, Messier 3 and Messier 13, astronomers have found an unexpected overabundance...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of a distant globular cluster called NGC 6717.
This Hubble image...
The Milky Way’s bulge is the ancient and crowded central hub of our Galaxy. It contains about one quarter of the total stellar mass of the Milky Way...
