Astronomy
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…
Research Uncovers New Kuiper Belt Mystery
Image credit: SWRI Although the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy objects located past the orbit of Neptune, was only…
Young Stars in an Old Galaxy
Image credit: Hubble Astronomers have spotted a number of young stellar clusters dotted around a very old elliptical galaxy -…
ESO Captures Image of Tarantula Nebula
Image credit: ESO The latest image released from the European Southern Observatory is of the Tarantula Nebula, located in the…
Astronomers Find More Red Quasars
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers from the Space believe that red quasars may be more common in the…
Spotlight on the 2MASS Sky Survey
Image credit: 2MASS One of the most groundbreaking work in astronomy being done right now is the Two Micron All-Sky…
Microwave View of the Universe’s Oldest Light
Image credit: NSF Astronomers from the National Science Foundation and Caltech have created the most detailed images ever made of…
Weather on Brown Dwarf Stars
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers from UCLA have found cloudy, stormy atmospheres on brown dwarfs - objects larger…
Tightest Binary System Discovered
Image credit: Gemini Thanks to the adaptive optics system of the Gemini observatory, astronomers have been able to spot a…
Cannibalistic Stars May Hold Clues to the Big Bang
Image credit: PPARC A team of UK astronomers have discovered a new class of cannibalistic stars that may explain one…