Scientists discover rare ultra-bright nova in neighboring galaxy
A rare and extremely bright nova explosion has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy close to our own Milky Way.
This...
Astronomers discover ancient quasars with mysterious origins
Astronomers have made a surprising discovery: some of the earliest and brightest quasars in the universe appear to be “lonely” and isolated in space.
Quasars...
Could neutron stars be surrounded by dark matter clouds? Scientists think so!
A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton, and Oxford has made an exciting discovery that could help explain one of the...
Astronomers solve the mystery of the famed brown dwarf that is too bright
In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red...
This giant cluster is spitting out massive stars
We live inside the Milky Way galaxy which is joined as it drifts through space by two satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds.
A star cluster...
Noisy white dwarfs could impact major space mission, study finds
Two Dutch master's students have discovered that the background noise from white dwarf stars will be louder than expected in the upcoming LISA space...
Scientists discover widespread ice on the Moon
New research from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has revealed that ice deposits on the Moon are more widespread than we previously thought.
This discovery...
Astronomers find surprising conflict between James Webb data and universe models
A new study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed surprising results that challenge long-standing ideas about how the universe...
Can life exist on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa?
NASA is preparing to launch a groundbreaking mission to one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, to find out if it has the right conditions to...
How early Earth and Mars evolved from magma oceans to solid planets
Before Earth became the blue planet we know today, it was covered by a deep ocean of molten rock, or magma, that stretched hundreds...