Astronomy

Andromeda is Three Times Larger Than Previously Believed

Astronomers from the US and France have mapped out the motion of a stars in the outskirts of the Andromeda…

20 years ago

Carbon/Oxygen Stars Could Explode as Gamma Ray Bursts

An international team of astronomers have found evidence that certain kinds of gamma-ray bursts, which are associated with Type 1C…

20 years ago

Rocky Planets Form Further Away Than Previously Thought

Astronomers have analyzed the dusty discs of newly forming planets around other stars, and have discovered that rocky planets (like…

20 years ago

Cosmic Rays Cause the Brightest Radio Flashes

When high-energy cosmic ray particles crash into the Earth's atmosphere, they produce some of the brightest radio flashes ever seen…

20 years ago

Dark Energy Could be a Breakdown of Einstein’s Theory

Cosmologists from Princeton are working on new tests that could help to explain the nature of "dark energy", a mysterious…

20 years ago

Amateurs Command Gemini for an Hour

A team of amateur Canadian astronomers took the helm at the powerful Gemini 8-metre telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea for…

20 years ago

Smallest Ever Coronal Mass Ejection

Usually it's the biggest things that get the news, but an international team of researchers have demonstrated that the tiny…

20 years ago

A SWIFT Response to Gamma Ray Bursts

Think astronomy is a boring task of poring over data or staring at star chart after start chart? Sometimes, it…

20 years ago

Shedding Light on Dark Gamma Ray Bursters

With the launch of NASA's Swift spacecraft, Gamma Ray Bursts - those "most powerful explosions in the Universe" - have…

20 years ago

Superflares Might Have Protected the Early Earth

Our Sun can flare up from time to time, but probably nothing like the superflares it created in its early…

20 years ago