NASA’s Webb Telescope shines with American ingenuity
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center To send humans to the Moon 50 years ago, an entire nation rose ...
Tag: Astronomy
Miniature gravitational-wave detector to be built at Northwestern
Physicists and astronomers lead efforts to detect new types of cosmic eventsCredit: Northwestern University A team of physicists and astronomers ...
Supernova observation first of its kind using NASA satellite
Data from NASA and Ohio State offer new clues about why stars explode COLUMBUS, Ohio--When NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...
Speeding up science on near-earth asteroids
Credit: NASA/JPL Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new ...
New measurement of universe’s expansion rate is ‘stuck in the middle’
Red giant stars observed by Hubble Space Telescope used to make an entirely new measurement of how fast the universe ...
New Hubble constant measurement adds to mystery of universe’s expansion rate
Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Freedman (University of Chicago), ESO, and the Digitized Sky Survey Astronomers have made a new measurement ...
Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields surrounding Earth and other planets
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. ...
‘Moon-forming’ circumplanetary disk discovered in distant star system
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) A. Isella; ESO Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of ...
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist
Credit: Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, S. Bianchi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre University), A. Laor (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), and ...
Alternating currents cause Jupiter’s aurora
An international team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the current system responsible for Jupiter's aurora. Using data transmitted to ...
Bath honours world-leading astronomer
University of Bath awards Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell an Honorary Degree as part of its summer graduation celebrations The ...
Astronomers expand cosmic ‘cheat sheet’ in hunt for life
ITHACA, N.Y. - Using nature's color palette from early Earth, Cornell University astronomers have created a cosmic "cheat sheet" in ...
Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background 'hum' of gravitational waves from ...
UCLA-developed terahertz sensors work at room temperature, unlike current technology
Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detailCredit: UCLA Engineering Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have ...
Interstellar iron isn’t missing, it’s just hiding in plain sight
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after ...
Exactly how fast is the universe expanding?
Princeton astrophysicists are closing in on the Hubble constantCredit: Video by Ore Gottlieb and Ehud Nakar, Tel Aviv University Exactly ...
New method may resolve difficulty in measuring universe’s expansion
Neutron star mergers can provide new 'cosmic ruler' Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a ...
Supercomputer shows ‘Chameleon Theory’ could change how we think about gravity
Credit: Christian Arnold/Baojiu Li/Durham University. Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be ...
Massive stars grow same way as light stars, just bigger
Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth ...
Collision course: Amateur astronomers play a part in efforts to keep space safe
Credit: Dstl Heavy traffic is commonplace on Earth but now congestion is becoming an increasing problem in space. With over ...
