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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Shadow Play Phenomenon Caused by Possible Planet

Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They're so small and faint that it's hard to spot them. But a possible planet in a nearby stellar system may be betraying its presence in a unique way: by a shadow that is sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding a young star.

9 Jan 2017

Cosmic One-Two Punch Creates Stupendous Particle Accelerator

An international team of astronomers including Lancaster’s David Sobral have discovered a cosmic one-two punch never seen before.

9 Jan 2017

Hubble Space Telescope Detects Comet Shower in HD 172555

Recent interstellar forecast for a nearby star indicates a comet shower. This was revealed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

9 Jan 2017

Stunning Image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove

An unparalleled image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving an international team of astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years beginning soon after the Big Bang.

6 Jan 2017

New Research Confirms Role of Type Ia Supernovae in Measuring Universe Expansion

How much light does a supernova shed on the history of universe?

5 Jan 2017

First Localization of Mysterious Fast Radio Burst Pinpoints Dwarf Galaxy 3 Billion Light Years Away from Earth

One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.

5 Jan 2017

VISTA Survey Reveals Hidden Secrets of Orion A Molecular Cloud

The new image from the VISION survey (VIenna Survey In Orion) is a montage of images taken in the near-infrared part of the spectrum by the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

5 Jan 2017

New Research Provides First Description of New, Extremely Rare Galaxy

Approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, there is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714) that doesn't look quite like anything astronomers have observed before.

5 Jan 2017

Researchers Use Atomic Quantum-Simulation to Observe Topological Soliton State in SSH Model

Topological insulators, an exciting, relatively new class of materials, are capable of carrying electricity along the edge of the surface, while the bulk of the material acts as an electrical insulator.

4 Jan 2017

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Observes Structure of a Cosmic Megamaser

This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most -- it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times brighter than the masers found in galaxies like the Milky Way.

30 Dec 2016