Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: (Graphic courtesy of NASA/Ball Aerospace) WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers designed and built two science payloads that ...

Machine learning tool allows scientists to search stellar data for likely exoplanet host starsCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser SAN ANTONIO -- June ...

Astronomy bot speeds up search for Jupiter's twinsCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have a new tool in their search for extraterrestrial ...

Scientists use sophisticated computer simulations and observations of trans-Neptunian objects to understand the formation of the solar systemCredit: NASA/APL/SwRI/ESA/STScI Using ...

For the first time, astronomers have found two giant clusters of galaxies that are just about to collide. This observation ...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University physicist Rachel Mandelbaum has been named a 2019 Simons Investigator by the Simons ...

Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Bauer This image shows an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a member of the Local ...

Magnetic disturbances caused by phenomena like the northern lights can be tracked by a 'social network' of ground-based instruments, according ...

Credit: Graphic courtesy of PUNCH Team/Southwest Research Institute WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute ...

Discovery could give insight into how and why jets are formed in gamma-ray burstsCredit: Kitty Yeung (art) and Tanmoy Laskar ...

Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- When the shimmering hues of the aurora dance in the night sky, ...

The polarisation signature reveals magnetic fields in the universe's most powerful explosions to be much more patchy and tangled than ...

International research team discovers two new Earth-like planets near Teegarden's starCredit: University of Göttingen, Institute for Astrophysics An international research ...

Credit: US Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Materials science researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have found a remnant ...

Credit: Simone Marchi The Sun is why we're here. It's also why Martians or Venusians are not. When the Sun ...

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory's spacecraft bus and the sunshield, ...

Researchers are offering glimpses into the nature and composition of Saturn's legendary rings by using data from some of the ...

How did the Red Planet get all of its clouds? CU Boulder researchers may have discovered the secret: just add ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Crenshaw and O. Fox When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray ...