Category: Science News

The Death of a Massive Star and the Birth of a Compact Neutron Star Binary Maunakea, Hawaii – A Caltech-led team of researchers, with the help of W. M. Keck Observatory […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – A team of astronomers has discovered a new way to unlock the mysteries of how the first galaxies formed and evolved. In a study published today in […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don’t find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as NGC1052-DF2, that is […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Thanks to lucky snapshots taken by an amateur astronomer in Argentina, scientists have obtained their first view of the initial burst of light from the explosion of […]

No companion found for famous young bright star orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Maunakea, Hawaii– Astronomers have the “all-clear” for an exciting test of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – An international research team led by Université de Montréal astrophysicist Lauren Weiss has discovered that exoplanets orbiting the same star tend to have similar sizes and a […]

Near-Infrared Echellette Spectrometer Designed to Find the Faintest, Most Violent Objects in the Universe Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory have successfully met a major milestone after […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Stars forming in galaxies appear to be influenced by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, but the mechanism of how that happens has […]