Category: Science News

Researchers Measure the Spin Rates of Bodies Thought to be Either Planets or Tiny “Failed” Stars Maunakea, Hawaii – Taking a picture of an exoplanet—a planet in a solar system […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Since astronomers first measured the size of an extrasolar planet seventeen years ago, they have struggled to answer the question: how did the largest planets get to […]

Supernova Discovery Challenges Known Theories of the Death of Stars Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers led by Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) has made a bizarre discovery; a […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – NASA has awarded a five-year Cooperative Agreement with the California Association for Research in Astronomy to continue the science program at the W. M. Keck Observatory. “The […]

Maunakea, Hawaii– A new study by an international team of astronomers reveals that Tau Ceti, the nearest Sun-like star about 12 light years away from the Sun, has four Earth-sized […]

Maunakea, Hawaii– The international Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey (SpARCS) collaboration based at the University of California, Riverside has combined observations from several of the world’s most powerful […]

Maunakea, Hawaii– Astronomers have spotted a primitive galaxy being devoured by a gigantic neighboring galaxy – a discovery that could provide clues about the early universe. The Little Cub galaxy […]

Two Distinct “Species” of Exoplanets Illuminated using W. M. Keck Observatory Data Maunakea, Hawaii – Since the mid-1990s, when the first planet around another sun-like star was discovered, astronomers have amassed […]

Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers for the first time have measured small ripples in the cosmic web using W. M. Keck Observatory images of rare double quasars. The most barren regions of […]