Stray stars between galaxies add to the cosmic light in the universe
Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse…
Category: Space
First detection of dark matter
Cutting-edge paper by Professor George Fraser — who tragically died in March this year — and colleagues at the University of…
Huge galaxies grow by eating nearby smaller ones
Massive galaxies in the Universe have stopped making their own stars and are instead snacking on nearby galaxies, according to research by…
Clear skies and water detected in Neptune-sized exoplanet
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Kepler Space Telescope have discovered…
Oxygen alone may not be enough to detect life on exoplanets
Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds or exoplants for gases that might be produced by life can’t rely on the…
Milky Way belongs to supercluster of galaxies named Laniakea
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) — among other telescopes — have determined…
Farside of the moon is like thick crust pizza with craters
55-year old dark side of the moon mystery solved The Man in the Moon appeared when meteoroids struck the Earth-facing side of the moon…