New observations by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory indicate the two brightest stars in the triple-star system Alpha Centauri are not pummeling any...
A faint and mysterious stream of microwaves emanating from young star systems far out in the Milky Way Galaxy could be caused by nanodiamonds about 1.5-2.2 nm...
There could be a flaw in the search for atmospheric oxygen as a signature of life around most of our nearby exoplanets. A team from the University of Washington...
Once thought to be formed soon after the Universe itself, new research from the Universities of Warwick and Auckland finds globular clusters may be only...
Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have detected six dark galaxies,...
The new map, created by astronomers from Yale University and elsewhere, provides unprecedented detail of the structure of the Orion A molecular cloud,...
An image taken by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) shows a swath of the southern sky along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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Galaxy clusters are the largest stable systems in the Universe. They can contain thousands of galaxies all held together by the glue of gravity. A spectacular...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have completed the sharpest, most comprehensive UV-light survey of star-forming galaxies in the local...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered an unusual laser emission from the planetary nebula Menzel 3 (often referred to as...
An international team of astronomers has used observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbor life, are burning issues in modern cosmology....
Earth is surrounded by a protective magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, which deflects a supersonic stream of charged particles from the Sun, known...
First discovered by Italian mathematician and priest Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654, NGC 6231 is a young star cluster located in the constellation...
An international team of astronomers has found that long-held assumptions about the relationship between the mass of star-forming clouds of dust and gas...
On December 10, 2001 Australian amateur astronomer Robert Evans discovered a supernova in the outer edge of NGC 7424, a spiral galaxy located in the southern...
ESA’s Gaia mission has released the largest catalogue ever of Milky Way stars. It includes the positions on the sky for approximately 1.7 billion stars,...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by a space shuttle on April 24, 1990. It was the first space telescope of its kind, and has...
