By Dr. Graham Woan / 06.15.2016 Professor of Astrophysics University of Glasgow The international team of physicists...
Astronomy
The brightness of outbursting star FU Orionis has been slowly fading since its initial flare-up in 1936....
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the galaxies in the survey to refine the measurement...
DSAC is prepping for a yearlong experiment to characterize and test its suitability for use in future...
Dr. Allan Adams Associate Professor of Physics Theoretical Physicist Massachusetts Institute of Technology Allan Adams is a...
Credit: NASA 06.02.2016 For a few seconds early Thursday, night turned into day as an extremely bright...
Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an...
This illustration represents the best evidence to date that the direct collapse of a gas cloud produced...
NASA / 05.23.2016 Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been...
With NASA astronaut Alan Shepard aboard, Mercury Redstone-3, America’s first piloted spaceflight is launched on May 5,...
This image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows an emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud known...
Wes Mountain/The Conversation Our understanding of gravity has gone through a few permutations, from Newton’s equations through...
This enhanced-color view from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy...
X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/B. Williams et al; Optical: DSS; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA When the star that created this supernova remnant...
This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. / Credit...
Katherine Johnson worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center from 1953 to 1986. Since her retirement, she’s been...
Imagined view from the surface of one of the newly discovered planets, with ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1...
04.28.2016 Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s Planck and a large list of...