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 ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Centuries-old drawings lead to better understanding of fan-shaped auroras
Credit: Japan Meteorological Agency Physics researchers and literature researchers have joined together to better understand the rare natural phenomenon of ...
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 ...
Scientists uncover exotic matter in the sun’s atmosphere
Credit: NASA/SDO. Scientists from Ireland and France today announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris
Credit: Michaela Pink Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting ...
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 ...
UTSA grows access to world-class observational labs for next gen astronomy students
Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) welcomes The University of Texas at ...
Small, hardy planets most likely to survive death of their stars
Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their ...
Our history in the stars
Matter around a young star helps astronomers explore our stellar historyCredit: © 2019 Rohan Mehra - Division for Strategic Public ...
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
Credit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the ...
Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new starsCredit: Melanie Gonick ...
Could this rare supernova resolve a longstanding origin debate?
Although hydrogen is the most-abundant element in the universe, it is almost never seen in Type Ia supernova explosions, except ...
Particle telescope to probe makeup of cosmic rays and could improve cancer treatment
Credit: Christophe Royon LAWRENCE -- With a recent three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA, a research team from the University ...
Secrets of the ‘blue supergiant’ revealed
Blue supergiants are the rock-and-roll stars of the universe. They are massive stars that live fast and die young which ...
When it comes to planetary habitability, it’s what’s inside that counts
Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable can be produced on planets with different compositions?Credit: ...
