Space

Astronomers using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii have looked 60 million years further back in time than any other astronomers, to find the most distant known galaxy in the universe. In doing so, they…

A research team at Swarthmore College discovered a previously unknown companion to the bright star, beta Crucis, in the Southern Cross. As a prominent member of the well-known constellation Crux, or…

The European Space Agency's gamma ray observatory Integral has caught the centre of our galaxy in a moment of rare quiet. A handful of the most energetic high-energy sources surrounding the black…

When kids head back to school this fall, they might have some brand new planets to memorize.   The International Astronomical Union, currently meeting in Prague, is expected to vote on the…

Asteroid (44) Nysa, discovered in 1857 by astronomer Hermann Goldschmidt, has gotten a lot of study in the last 170 years but a recent analysis of data reveals it has its own moon. The new data came…

It has been argued that the Kardashev scale is wrong; advanced civilizations will make progress by being more efficient or using more information or managing the entropy they produce, resulting in…

Scientists studying the inner main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, believed to be a member of the Erigone asteroid family, have found that its rotation wobbles. Donaldjohanson is named for the…

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