HIP68468, a twin star to the sun about 300 light-years away, may have swallowed one or more of its planets, based on lithium and refractory elements recently discovered near its surface. Credit: Gabi Perez / Instituto de Astrofísica de...
This artist's view shows how the light coming from the surface of a strongly magnetic neutron star (left) becomes linearly polarised as it travels through the vacuum of space close to the star on its way to the observer...
Credit: ESO’s OmegaCAM on the VLT Survey Telescope
Statistical analysis of mini-spiral galaxies shows an unexpected interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter. According to the SISSA study recently published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, where the...
ALMA observations of a young protostar about 450 light years away. Using these images, astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have for the first time been able to study how a whirlwind is lifted from a rotating disk of...
Coronal mass ejections from the sun heat Earth's upper atmosphere, then cool it dramatically, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study. Credit: NASA
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has found the mechanism behind the...
ChemCam target Catabola is a raised resistant calcium sulfate vein with the highest abundance of boron observed so far. The red outline shows the location of the ChemCam target remote micro images (inset). The remote micro images show the...
Supercomputer model of a low-mass supernova.Credit: Bernhard Mueller, MNRAS 453, 287-310 (2015)
International research involving a Monash University scientist is using new computer models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the formation of our solar...
In February 2017, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake a search for Earth-Trojan asteroids while on its outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu. Earth-Trojans are asteroids that share an orbit with Earth while remaining near a stable point 60 degrees...
An artist's depiction of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded the rotating leftovers of a star that was ripped apart by the tidal forces of the black hole.Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
Back in 2015 when astronomers discovered an...
This artist's impression depicts a sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of the sun, in the center of a distant galaxy. Its large mass bends...
This is an artist's impression of planet HAT-P-7b.Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Signs of powerful changing winds have been detected on a planet 16 times larger than Earth, over 1000 light years away -- the first time ever that weather...
