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New research shows quasars slowed star formation
Study finds first observed evidence of galactic-wind phenomenon.
March 23, 2016 Read more
A new way to determine the age of stars?
Researchers have developed a new conceptual framework for understanding how stars similar to our Sun evolve. Their framework helps explain how the rotation of stars, their emission of x-rays, and the intensity of their stellar winds vary with time.
March 23, 2016 Read more
Caught for the first time: The early flash of an exploding star
NASA's planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, has captured the brilliant flash of an exploding star's shock wave - what astronomers call the 'shock breakout' of a supernova - for the first time in visible light wavelengths.
March 22, 2016 Read more
Record-breaking ultraviolet winds discovered near black hole
The fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths have been discovered near a supermassive black hole.
March 21, 2016 Read more
Most eccentric planet ever known flashes astronomers with reflected light
A team of researchers has spotted an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen.
March 21, 2016 Read more
VLA shows earliest stages of planet formation
Astronomers see unprecedented detail of inner portion of protoplanetary disk.
March 18, 2016 Read more
Hubble unveils monster stars
An international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 with the unprecedented ultraviolet spatial resolution of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph to successfully dissect the young star cluster R136 in the ultraviolet for the first time.
March 18, 2016 Read more
Extreme energy source at heart of the Milky Way
H.E.S.S telescopes observe cosmic rays accelerated by giant black hole.
March 17, 2016 Read more
Gravity glasses offer a view of the Earth's interior
How does the ice on the polar caps change? And which are the geological characteristics of the Earth's crust beneath? What is the structure of the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle? Geophysicists will be able to answer these questions in the future using gravity field measurements from ESA's GOCE gravity satellite.
March 14, 2016 Read more
Mysterious infrared light from space resolved perfectly
A research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the faintest millimeter-wave source ever observed. By accumulating millimeter-waves from faint objects like this throughout the Universe, the team finally determined that such objects are 100% responsible for the enigmatic infrared background light filling the Universe.
March 10, 2016 Read more
Clocking the rotation rate of a supermassive black hole
A recent observational campaign involving more than two dozen optical telescopes and NASA's space based SWIFT X-ray telescope allowed a team of astronomers to measure very accurately the rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe.
March 10, 2016 Read more
Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of stars
Astronomers use computer simulations based on theoretical models to explain massive star formation observed in dwarf galaxies.
March 10, 2016 Read more
High-energy cosmic rays: Galactic or extragalactic?
It appears that radio-wave measurements have discovered a new component of the Galactic cosmic ray population.
March 4, 2016 Read more
Hubble team breaks cosmic distance record
By pushing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This surprisingly bright infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang.
March 3, 2016 Read more
Surf's up on Saturn's geologically active moon Titan
In the shadow of Saturn's hulking planetary mass, Titan's liquid hydrocarbon seas seem a bit choppy, astronomers say.
March 2, 2016 Read more
Celestial bodies born like cracking paint
Volumes under internal tension crack hierarchically, revealing how gravity created the universe's wide variety of body sizes.
March 2, 2016 Read more
Why celestial bodies come in different sizes
Researchers find that a universe that contains some big objects and many small objects relieves gravitational tension faster than a uniform universe.
March 1, 2016 Read more
The origins of the universe
An in-depth look at the origins of matter and the environmental conditions that helped shape the universe today.
March 1, 2016 Read more