Tag: Astronomy

Credit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the ...

Nicholas Kaiser and Joseph Ivor Silk are honoured for their seminal work on cosmological structure formation and dark matterCredit: Gruber ...

Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the Universe's earliest galaxies were ...

New method developed by Berkeley Lab researchers cuts through galaxies' messy emissions, provides clearer window into dark matter, dark energyCredit: ...

Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new starsCredit: Melanie Gonick ...

Although hydrogen is the most-abundant element in the universe, it is almost never seen in Type Ia supernova explosions, except ...

Experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin's group launches its first iterations of space-traveling 'wafercraft' UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, ...

Credit: F. Roelofs and M. Moscibrodzka, Radboud University Astronomers have just managed to take the first image of a black ...

Blue supergiants are the rock-and-roll stars of the universe. They are massive stars that live fast and die young which ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho et al. Few of the universe's residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. ...

Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable can be produced on planets with different compositions?Credit: ...

Issued by the LIGO Laboratory, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and Virgo Collaboration. On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser ...

Columbia University and University of Florida study finds sign of cosmic event that created elements that became part of usCredit: ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), and G. Bacon (STScI) Astronomers have put together the largest ...