Tag: Astronomy

Credit: Stefan Kraus Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique ...

New research findings from the IAS, University of Michigan, and UC BerkeleyCredit: Co & Harigaya In a new study of ...

Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Out beyond our solar system, visible only as the smallest dot in space with even the most powerful ...

Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planetsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas ...

Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black ...

Object lies between heaviest known neutron star and lightest known black holeCredit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) An international research collaboration, including ...

For centuries, lighthouses helped sailors navigate safely into harbor. In the future, space explorers may receive similar guidance from the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known ...

Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT) As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions ...

Every year, 2 million black hole mergers are missed -- Australian scientists work out how to detect them, revealing a ...

Results show the shifting outer heliosphere in great detailCredit: Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Conceptual Imaging Lab Far, far beyond the ...

Physicists propose a new table-top experiment for detecting dark matterCredit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) ...

There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way Galaxy, according ...