Astrophysics

Effectiveness of tool is demonstrated on recent super-Earth discovery at Barnard's starCredit: Gudmundur Stefansson / Pennsylvania State University Irvine, Calif., Feb. 20, 2019 - Astronomers from institutions including the University…

Credit: Abhishek Srivastava IIT (BHU)/Joy Ng, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists have discovered tadpole-shaped jets coming out of regions with intense magnetic fields on the Sun. Unlike those living on Earth, these "tadpoles"…

Presented during FAPESP Week London, instrument created in São Paulo will be improved in collaboration with Russia and will measure solar flares; launch is scheduled for 2022.Credit: André Julião A new version of equipment developed in…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger A volunteer working with the NASA-led Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has found the oldest and coldest known white dwarf -- an Earth-sized remnant of a Sun-like star that has…

Credit: NIST The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) "astrocomb."…

126 outstanding early-career researchers honored across 8 fields The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as the recipients of the 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships. The…

ASU astronomer Adam Schneider helps research team zero in on puzzling astrophysical objectCredit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger A volunteer working with the NASA-led Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has found the…

Credit: Image Credit: P. Marenfeld & NOAO/AURA/NSF, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project re-launches this week, with a call to volunteer citizen scientists to join the search for…

Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Fast magnetic reconnection, the rapid convergence, separation and explosive snapping together of magnetic field lines, gives rise to northern lights, solar flares and geomagnetic storms…

Credit: CNSA The IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the name Statio Tianhe for the landing site where the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 touched down on 3 January this year, in the first-ever landing on the far…