Tag: Star

LAWRENCE — It’s Earth-sized, volcano-studded (possibly) and orbiting the cusp of a “habitable zone” around a star 90 light years ...

The Universe is a violent place where even the life of a star can be cut short. This occurs when ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- One of the most basic and crucial embryonic processes to unfold in virtually every living organism ...

Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators recently measured the masses of several ...

By studying countless stars at various stages of their evolution, astronomers have been able to piece together an understanding of ...

The most common stars in the universe are red dwarf stars, which means that rocky exoplanets are most likely to ...

Once every 10,000 years or so, the center of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A distant star, dying a fiery and dramatic death, torn apart by a supermassive black hole ...

It looks like a black hole and bends light like a black hole, but it could actually be a new ...

Using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, a University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team looked more than 13 ...

On Oct. 11, 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spent over 20 hours observing the long-studied Hubble Ultra Deep Field for the ...

An accretion disk is a colossal whirlpool of gas and dust that gathers around a black hole or a neutron ...

Colorado State University chemists have achieved a new feat in the realm of chemical design and synthesis: They’ve helped create the first ...

UPTON, NY—Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have ...

Stars are formed by molecular gas and dust coalescing in space. These molecular gases are so dilute and cold that ...

An international team of researchers under the leadership of Dr Florian Peißker at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Astrophysics ...

Washington, DC— A team of astronomers led by Carnegie’s Shubham Kanodia has discovered an unusual planetary system in which a ...

Gas clouds in the Cygnus X Region, a region where stars form, are composed of a dense core of molecular ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of galaxy clusters, researchers have, for the very first time, been ...

Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA’s Fermi ...