Chandra’s Verdict on the Demise of a Star: “Death by Black Hole”
This week, astronomers announced the detection of a rare event, a star being torn to shreds by a massive black…
Dark Sky Regulations Bring Zodiacal Light to Rhode Island Observatory
The result of sunlight reflected off fine particles of dust aligned along the plane of the Solar System, zodiacal light…
NASA: International Space Station Operations Extended to 2024
NASA announced today that the Obama administration has approved NASA's request for an extension of operations for the International Space…
Gravitational Lens Seen for the First Time in Gamma Rays
An exciting new discovery was unveiled early this week at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society being held…
Is NASA Dead? Not Even Close.
If you're a frequent reader of Universe Today you know that, despite the end of the Shuttle program and the…
Space Telescopes Look Back 13.2 Billion Years and See Surprisingly Luminous Galaxies
What was the Universe like more than 13 billion years ago, just 500 million years after the big bang? New…
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Private Antares/Cygnus rocket Glistens and Go for Launch as Polar Vortex Sweeps in Brutal Bone Chilling Cold
UPDATE: Orbital announced the Antares launch today (Jan. 8) has been scrubbed because of solar activity. More info on the…
Monster Sunspot Erupts with an X-Class Flare
Solar astronomers have been keeping an eye on giant sunspot AR1944, and as it turned towards Earth today, the sunspot…
The Most Common Exoplanets Might be “Mini-Neptunes”
If the dataset from the Kepler mission is any indication, the most common type of exoplanets in our galaxy aren’t…
Super-sensitive Camera Captures a Direct Image of an Exoplanet
The world's newest and most powerful exoplanet imaging instrument, the recently-installed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) on the 8-meter Gemini South…