Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered a planet orbiting one of the brightest young stars known, according to a study published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Aged at approximately 45 million years old, the star and its planet...
An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy.Credit: NASA – JPL/Caltech
The supermassive black holes found at the centre of every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, may, on average, be smaller than we...
Image montage showing the Maunakea Observatories, Kepler Space Telescope, and night sky with K2 Fields and discovered planetary systems (dots) overlaid. An international team of scientists discovered more than 100 planets based on images from Kepler operating in the...
An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein's theory of general relativity, 'the universality of free fall."
The new research shows that the theory holds for strongly self-gravitating...
