An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of twelve planets orbiting nine low-mass stars. The discovery is based on data from the...
A team of U.S. astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to make a new measurement of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the Universe...
Nestled in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, approximately 410 light-years from the Sun, a fascinating protoplanetary disk around the young star AS 209...
Nocturnal animals can use the stars and the Milky Way to find their way during the darkest hours, according to a new review article, published in the Proceedings...
Using the Experiment to Detect Global EoR Signature (EDGES), a small ground-based radio telescope at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in...
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers discovered that a giant stellar flare erupted from Proxima Centauri...
Astronomers have discovered that a giant star called R Sculptoris is surrounded by giant ‘clumps’ of stellar dust that are peeling away from the shedding...
Astronomers have long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy was 2-3 times the mass and size of the Milky Way, and that our own Galaxy would ultimately be engulfed...
This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a somewhat overlooked barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 1559.
This image from the NASA/ESA...
A team of astronomers led by University of Colorado Boulder scientists has discovered a mechanism that explains the persistence of asymmetrical star clusters...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) today released the most detailed image taken so far of a star-forming region called Lupus 3.
This image of the...
Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission have found a triple system of super-Earth exoplanets around a cool star called...
An international team of physicists has created the first small-scale replica of gamma ray bursts in a laboratory, opening up a whole new way to investigate...
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of an ancient globular cluster named NGC 3201.
This Hubble image shows the...
An international team of astronomers led by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen researcher Benjamin Giesers has discovered a star in the globular cluster...
Many disc galaxies, including our own Milky Way Galaxy, have a central concentration of stars called a ‘bulge.’ For decades, astronomers had a simple...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to peer deep into the famous Orion Nebula, Space Telescope Institute researcher Massimo Robberto and colleagues...
A study of 909 exoplanets in 355 multi-planet systems discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope reveals that, unlike our Solar System, other planetary...
