Category: Science News

Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers have discovered the brightest gravitationally lensed object ever seen at a time when the universe was less than one billion years old. With the help of […]

Microlensing Reveals Sub-Saturn Giant Planets are Common, Not Rare Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers have found a new exoplanet that could alter the standing theory of planet formation. With a mass […]

Rare Relic is One of Only Three Fossil Clouds Known in the Universe Maunakea, Hawaii – A relic cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, has been discovered in […]

New Visible and Infrared Observations of Young Star Reveal Clues About How It Bulks Up Maunakea, Hawaii – Researchers have discovered a young star in the midst of a rare […]

Researchers are Perfecting Technology to One Day Look for Signs of Alien Life Summary: New observations of a young gas giant demonstrate the power of a ground-based method for searching […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers may have finally uncovered the long-sought progenitor to a specific type of exploding star by sifting through NASA Hubble Space Telescope archival data and conducting follow-up […]

PLANET ORBITS BARNARD’S STAR, THE CLOSEST SINGLE STAR TO THE SUN Maunakea, Hawaii – At only six light-years away, Barnard’s star has fascinated exoplanet hunters since the 1960’s, largely due […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Two galaxies, drawn together by the force of gravity, are merging into a tangled mass of dense gas and dust. Structure is giving way to chaos, but […]

A team of scientists get best measure yet of why star formation stopped in galaxy clusters in the early universe Maunakea, Hawaii – Galaxy clusters are rare regions of the […]

Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last […]