A study published today (Dec. 15) in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics reveals the discovery of two new planetary systems...
Two galaxies in the early universe, which contain extremely productive star factories, have been studied by a team of scientists...
Astronomers at the University of Toronto have discovered a population of massive stars that have been stripped of their hydrogen...
Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars, since they form like stars through gravitational collapse, but never gain enough mass...
Objects in space reveal different aspects of their composition and behavior at different wavelengths of light. Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A...
Only two of the more than 5,300 known exoplanets have so far provided evidence of moons in orbit around them....
Black holes—the cosmic behemoths known for powering some of the brightest radio wave sources in the universe—were the focal point...
Astronomers have observed, for the first time in three dimensions, that gas from spiral galaxies is blown upward and downward...
Our sun actively produces solar flares that can impact Earth, with the strongest flares having the capacity to cause blackouts...
As far as the eye can see, galaxies fill the images of the deep universe. What processes determined their shapes,...
A Dutch-led international team of astronomers has made the first two-dimensional inventory of ice in a planet-forming disk of dust...
Through analysis of high-resolution data from a 10-meter telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in...
