The stars circled in blue are ones identified by the US Naval Observatory B-1.0 catalog.Credit: Image courtesy of Texas Tech University
Alone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a...
Why don't planets collide more often? How do planetary systems—like our solar system or multi-planet systems around other stars—organize themselves? Of all of the possible ways planets could orbit, how many configurations will remain stable over the billions of...
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, behind the planet's rings. The much smaller moon Epimetheus is visible in the foreground.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Titan, the largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, has surprisingly intense rainstorms, according to research by a team...
The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, O3, new gravitational-wave candidates about once a week. But now, the...
The image is a compotie of the i-band data (in red) from the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru Telescope and R-band (in green) and V-band (in blue) images from the Mayall 4-m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory...
rth's climate over the last 40,000 years.
The results are far from conclusive, but they offer tantalizing hints that, when it comes to the stability of life on Earth, what happens in space doesn't always stay in space.
"These are extreme...
Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the strong gravitational lens ER-0047-2808. Pictured in the centre of the image is the strong lens galaxy, whose mass is responsible for the deflection of the background source's light. The multiply-imaged source galaxy can...
A team of astronomers led by George Becker at the University of California, Riverside, has made a surprising discovery: 12.5 billion years ago, the most opaque place in the universe contained relatively little matter.
It has long been known that...
New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source's environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.
The...
This composite image shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting at the 7 o'clock position off the limb of Jupiter's moon Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA's Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the moon...
A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth's Sun.
The maps provide unprecedented detail of the structure of the Orion A molecular cloud, the closest star-forming region of...
