Tag: Stars/The Sun

A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro et al. This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Riess (STScI/JHU) and Palomar Digitized Sky Survey Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have ...

Credit: Lee Sandberg Scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently submitted a paper announcing the discovery of six ...

Researchers show young stars rapidly destroy Earth-like nitrogen dominated atmospheres The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our ...

University of Arkansas physics professor Daniel Kennefick writes about the 1919 eclipse, which provided the data to confirm the revolutionary ...

A stellar flare 10 times more powerful than anything seen on our Sun has burst from an ultracool star almost ...

Two dense, city-sized stars collided in a galaxy far, far away; the resulting X-rays give UNLV's Bing Zhang and international ...

They may be small, but CubeSats are mighty when it comes to affordably obtaining scientific data in spaceCredit: MinXSS Team ...

New technique doubles resolution of angular size measurementsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialised on cosmic ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al. Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA ...

UMass Amherst research delegation is in Washington, D.C., for announcementCredit: INAOE/UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Today, in coordinated press conferences ...

Press tips for the upcoming 2019 American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver -- a major international meeting featuring advances ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises ...