Astronomy
Supernova Won’t Destroy the World
Image credit: Hubble Just in case you were worried, it appears that a supernova would have to be really really…
Binary Star Ejected From its System
Astronomers from the University of Mexico have found a distant star system where a small, young star has been flung…
Protoplanetary Disk Found Around a Star
Image credit: Hubble The new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a clear disk…
Distant and Fast Moving Object Discovered
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena presented images today of a…
Ring of Stars Found Around our Milky Way
Image credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a giant ring of stars circling the Milky…
Dark Energy Dominated Universe
Image credit: Hubble A new paper published by Dartmouth university researcher Brian Chaboyer reports that our universe might be dominated…
XMM Helps Uncover Exotic Matter
Image credit: ESA Shortly after the Big Bang, it's believed that all the matter in the Universe was broken up…
New Large Object Discovered Past Pluto
Image credit: Hubble Astronomers have discovered a new object far past the orbit of Pluto. Dubbed Quaoar, the object is…
Best Infrared Image Ever Taken of our Galaxy’s Heart
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers have taken the highest resolution mid-infrared picture ever taken of the center of…
Earth’s Third Moon Discovered
An amateur astronomer has discovered what could be a new object orbiting the Earth; maybe it's a recently captured space…