Scientists reveal the violent history of the big galaxy next door
The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about four billion years.
So knowing what kind of a monster our galaxy...
NASA’s Spitzer detects a starry region bursting with bubbles
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and...
How close an exoplanet can be to its host star and remain habitable
Earth-like exoplanets with dry tropical regions can remain habitable at a closer distance to their host star than previously thought, a new study suggests.
Because...
A special bond: supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
Some relationships are written in the stars.
That's definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from...
Scientists discover most distant galaxy protocluster
Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection of 12 galaxies which existed about 13.0 billion...
Get ready for more strange, icy interstellar objects
Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren’t exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way...
Life’s building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds
An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the...
Scientists find galaxy floating in a tranquil sea of halo gas
Analysis of radio pulses that passed through a galactic halo reveals a surprisingly quiescent halo with very low density and weak magnetic field.
Using one...
Scientists discover a giant exoplanet that should not exist
Astronomers detected a giant planet orbiting a small star. The planet has much more mass than theoretical models predict.
The red dwarf GJ 3512...
Scientists watch a black hole shredding a star
After passing too close to a supermassive black hole, the star in this artist's conception is torn apart into a thin stream of gas,...