Tag: Astronomy

Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of ...

MADISON, Wis. -- A new, more accessible and much cheaper approach to surveying the topology and strength of interstellar magnetic ...

Toxic gases limit the types of life we could find on habitable worldsCredit: (Graphic courtesy of Christopher Reinhard/Georgia Tech) RIVERSIDE, ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera ...

IAU100 NameExoWorlds gives every country in the world the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host starCredit: IAU/L. Calçada ...

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 ...

Credit: Michigan Engineering ANN ARBOR--It's one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun--why is its outer ...

VLT observes a passing double asteroid hurtling by Earth at 70,000 km/hCredit: ESO The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) coordinated ...

The latest research, reported in the SPIE Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, will support the most powerful ground-based ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Cote This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As ...

Credit: NASA/NICER In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is ...

EU-funded 'Graphene Flagship' project completes zero-gravity experimentsCredit: Graphene Flagship Researchers embark on zero-gravity parabolic flights to test novel graphene-based thermal ...

Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A Neptunian planet has been found in what should be a 'Neptunian Desert' by telescopes ...

Credit: NASA LAWRENCE -- Did ancient supernovae induce proto-humans to walk on two legs, eventually resulting in homo sapiens with ...