Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using spectroscopy. Now...
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell astronomers have...
An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the...
A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented precision over a field...
In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up...
Astronomers have uncovered the “Neptunian Ridge,” a newly identified feature in the distribution of exoplanets. This discovery, led by an...
With the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of...
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies...
Physicists at the University of Southampton have tested and proven a 50-year-old theory for the first time using electro-magnetic waves....
Chinese researchers have discovered a promising mass-gap black hole using radial velocity and astrometry methods. The study was published online...
For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a star other than the sun in enough detail to track...
A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of...
