Category: Science News

Researchers Directly Observe for the First Time a Huge Outflow of Gas Extending Far Beyond a Galaxy Maunakea, Hawaii – Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – A group of astronomers led by University of California, Davis has obtained new data that suggest the universe is expanding more rapidly than previously thought. The study […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – An international group of scientists led by Hideki Umehata of the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, a branch of Japan’s largest scientific research organization, has made detailed […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Using multiple Maunakea Observatories – the Subaru Telescope, W. M. Keck Observatory, and Gemini Observatory – an international team of astronomers has discovered the earliest protocluster ever […]

UCLA astronomers notice brightest light in 24 years of observations Maunakea, Hawaii – The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers has pinpointed the origin of a runaway high-velocity star named PG 1610+062 and determined that it was likely ejected from its birth […]

Three times the mass of Jupiter, a first-of-its-kind planet swings around its star on bizarre path Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers have discovered a planet three times the mass of Jupiter […]

The chemical composition of certain stars gives clues about their predecessors, stars that have long since exploded and faded. Maunakea, Hawaii – When small, dense stars called white dwarfs explode, […]

Loki Patera, the major volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, appears to wax and wane with an approximately 500-day oscillation in the moon’s orbit. Maunakea, Hawaii – Hundreds of volcanoes pockmark […]

Detailed UCLA-led analysis of the star’s orbit near supermassive black hole gives a look into how gravity behaves Maunakea, Hawaii – More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his […]