Name an exoplanet
IAU100 NameExoWorlds gives every country in the world the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host starCredit: IAU/L. Calçada ...
Tag: Astronomy
Cool, nebulous ring around Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), E.M. Murchikova; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello New ALMA observations reveal a never-before-seen disk of cool, interstellar gas wrapped ...
Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
Credit: Michigan Engineering ANN ARBOR--It's one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun--why is its outer ...
ESO contributes to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids
VLT observes a passing double asteroid hurtling by Earth at 70,000 km/hCredit: ESO The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) coordinated ...
Precision calibration empowers largest solar telescope
The latest research, reported in the SPIE Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, will support the most powerful ground-based ...
Hubble sees a galaxy bucking the trend
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Cote This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As ...
NICER’s night moves trace the X-ray sky
Credit: NASA/NICER In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is ...
Graphene to enable future space exploration
EU-funded 'Graphene Flagship' project completes zero-gravity experimentsCredit: Graphene Flagship Researchers embark on zero-gravity parabolic flights to test novel graphene-based thermal ...
The ‘Forbidden’ planet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A Neptunian planet has been found in what should be a 'Neptunian Desert' by telescopes ...
Researchers wonder if ancient supernovae prompted human ancestors to walk upright
Credit: NASA LAWRENCE -- Did ancient supernovae induce proto-humans to walk on two legs, eventually resulting in homo sapiens with ...
Meteor magnets in outer space
UCR-led study finds elusive giant planetsCredit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise ...
Hubble spies curious galaxy moving a little closer
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Sargent et al. This Hubble image stars Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly ...
Chemistry of stars sheds new light on the Gaia Sausage
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the ...
Detecting bacteria in space
Scientists at Université de Montréal and McGill University have pioneered and tested a new genomic methodology which reveals a complex ...
Neptune’s moon Triton fosters rare icy union
Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune's largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond ...
18 Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Scientists have used a new method to find small exoplanets, which previous surveys had overlookedCredit: NASA/JPL (Neptune), NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring ...
Stellar waltz with dramatic ending
Researchers of the University of Bonn identify extremely rare fusion of two white dwarfsCredit: (c) Vasilii Gvaramadse/Moscow University Astronomers at ...
NAM 2019: First media announcement
Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal ...
Mindfulness helps mothers with opioid use disorder combat depression
(Thomas Jefferson University) The discovery highlights alternative treatment options to pharmaceutical medications.
RIT to gather computational astrophysics experts from across the globe for workshops
Neutron star mergers to be topic of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation events Scientists conducting cutting-edge research in computational ...
