Tag: Astrophysics

That gold on your ring finger is stellar - and not just in a complimentary way. In a finding that ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Nestled within this field of bright foreground stars lies ESO 495-21, a tiny galaxy with a big ...

Few sun-like stars have these massive planets, making our sun unusualCredit: GPIES team, with animation by Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley. ...

Credit: Michelle Vigeant LAWRENCE -- At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in St. Louis, Missouri, Allison Kirkpatrick, ...

RIT scientist Sukanya Chakrabarti developing methods to hunt for the darkest dwarf galaxiesCredit: Sukanya Chakrabarti/RIT The newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy ...

Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered hints that humanity's favorite star may have a dual personality, with intriguing discrepancies in ...

Astronomers probing the edges of the Milky Way have in recent years observed some of the most brilliant pyrotechnic displays ...

Credit: Cassini, Dante, Baillié and Noyelles The Solar System's second largest planet both in mass and size, Saturn is best ...

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

Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark matter, and a possible way ...

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

Credit: A. Ghizzi Panizza/ESO Newly-built planet-finding instrument installed on Very Large Telescope, Chile, begins 100-hour observation of nearby stars Alpha ...

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

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists are already pursuing new experiments to probe for low-mass dark matter particlesCredit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley ...

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

This is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument developed in the Instituto de Astrofísica ...

Intergalactic magnetic fields connect two merging galaxy clusters, according to a new study, which reports the first discovery of a ...

A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in ...

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

For the first time, researchers prove 1975 proposition that accretion disks align with their black holesCredit: Sasha Tchekhovskoy/Northwestern University; Matthew ...