An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “cosmic dawn”—the...
Astronomers snap first confirmed direct image of a brown dwarf orbiting a star in the Hyades Cluster
A team of astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories in Hawaiʻi—W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope—have photographed a brown dwarf...
The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest regions of a cold molecular cloud measured to date has been announced...
All kinds of exoplanets orbit very close to their star. Some look like the Earth, others like Jupiter. Very few,...
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds which...
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering...
In the vast and diverse universe, the initial mass distribution at the birth of a new population of stars determines...
Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protoplanetary disks without needing to make assumptions...
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have unveiled a first-of-its-kind map that could help answer...
Astronomers from McGill University in Canada and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru have used data from the...
Astronomers have been gazing at the Triangulum galaxy for centuries. But they’ve never seen it quite like this. On Jan....
NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, is full of mystery. Now, though, it is...
