MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant ...
"FU Ori has been devouring material for almost 100 years to keep its eruption going. We have finally found an answer to how ...
Astronomers will be alerted to gravitational waves faster than ever before as LIGO and other detectors "listen" to a ...
Many astronomers, like Christopher Sirola from the University of Southern Mississippi, even view eclipses as an opportunity to harness public captivation to educate about the science behind the ...
But in 1973, the planets aligned in such a way that a group of daring and lucky astronomers managed ... attempting to determine if there was a ring of them around the sun. Paul Wraith from ...
Major cuts to its funding could lead to layoffs for half of the observatory’s staff by October and, according to concerned scientists, a premature end to the mission around 2026. Astronomers are ...
Studying these pulses, which can also come from mergers of some exotic astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars, can help astronomers ... will orbit around each other, creeping ...
Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a recently detected extreme helium star designated EC 19529–4430. It turned out that ...
Victor Glover, a nine-year veteran of the astronaut corps who will fly around the moon in 2025 ... inspired generations of students to become astronomers by dragging them to the ends of the ...
May 6, 2024 — Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored as much water as Earth. Today, almost all of it has disappeared. A new study may help to explain ...
Astronomers have gotten better at tracking ... Victor Glover, a nine-year veteran of the astronaut corps who will fly around the moon in 2025, said the search for excellence and diversity were ...