NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers 11 New Extrasolar Systems with 26 Exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems, with an additional 26 confirmed planets, which actually doubles the number of verified Kepler planets and…
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems, with an additional 26 confirmed planets, which actually doubles the number of verified Kepler planets and…
NASAA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is one step closer to its March launch. The NuSTAR was shipped to the Vandenberg Air Force Base…
Scientists are using powerful lasers to mimic the effects of supernovae, which are helping to reveal how the magnetic fields of galaxies may have been…
Brigham Young University geologist Jani Radebaugh, alongside researchers from NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory, has put forth a plan that would send a done…
One of nature’s biggest mysteries, dark energy, is being explored thanks to a deceptively simple tool that David Schlegel came up with. 2,200 aluminum plates,…
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), which can simultaneously count photons, measure their energy, and record each one’s time of arrival, could eventually replace charge-coupled devices…
An active sunspot erupted on Sol on January 19th, at around 16:30 UT, which produced an M3-class solar flare as well as a full-halo coronal…
The Giant Magellan Telescope is designed to employ a series of seven 28-foot mirrors, which will be arranged in a honeycomb pattern. It will be…
The Helix Nebula in the Aquarius constellation, located some 700 light-years away from Earth, was just observed by the piercing infrared gaze of the VISTA…
Together, the twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory, which consists of two 8.1 m (27 ft) telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, provide almost complete coverage…
Supernova Primo originated 9 billion years ago, when its progenitor star exploded. The light was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope by a three-year project…
It might sound like science-fiction, but on Wednesday January 18th, astronomers, physicists, and scientists will convene in Tucson, Arizona, to discuss a feat that would…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made a rare discovery when looking deep into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Spotted was a population of rare blue stars in…
Good news today for fans of giant planets. Astronomers have found 18 new alien planets. They are all Jupiter-size gas giants that circle stars larger…