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,...
Dinosaurs-killing metal could destroy cancer cell’s ‘power source’
A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer tumours selectively using...
Scientists discover a gateway for comets to visit our inner Solar System
A recent study may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled to the...
Scientists capture six galaxies undergoing sudden, dramatic transitions
Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and brightnesses, ranging from humdrum ordinary galaxies to luminous active galaxies.
While an ordinary galaxy is...
Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age before dinosaurs
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze.
The seas began to ice over at the Earth's poles,...