Astronomy
Two Stars Kicked Out of the Milky Way
Two stars have been spotted streaking out of the Milky Way, never to return. These stars are part of a…
NASA’s IMAGE Mission Ends
NASA recently shut down its Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) program, wrapping up 6 years of operations. During its…
World’s Largest Telescope
Europeans have begun funding what will eventually become the world's largest telescope: the Square Kilometre Array. The first step is…
Kuiper Belt-Like Disks Around Two Nearby Stars
After surveying 22 nearby star systems, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered two bright debris disks that resemble our own…
Natural Particle Accelerator Discovered
A fleet of NASA and ESA spacecraft have spotted an immense jet of electrically charged particles in the solar wind…
Fossil Galaxy in the Early Universe
NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has spotted a distant dwarf galaxy undergoing a burst of star formation. This…
Hit and Run Planets
The composition of many planets, asteroids and meteorites could be explained by the theory of "hit-and-run" collisions. Scientists originally believed…
The Stars That Shouldn’t Be
Arizona astronomers have found a collection of stars that really shouldn't exist. They're located in the debris of NGC 2782,…
Dark Matter Galaxy?
Astronomers think they might have found a "dark galaxy", that has no stars and emits no light. Although the galaxy…
Magnetic Slinky in Space
Astronomers from UC Berkeley University have recently discovered a spiraling magnetic field in space, wrapped around a long, thin cloud…