For 10 years, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray bursts…
Based on preliminary results from a new Gemini Observatory survey of 531 stars with the…
Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Geological Survey have found that data…
When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a…
An article published in the SPIE publication Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), “Polarization Modeling…
The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) coordinated a cross-organisational observing campaign of the asteroid 1999…
The first minerals to form in the universe were nanocrystalline diamonds, which condensed from gases…
Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of…
It’s one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun–why is its…
In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may…
