The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Radio astronomy uses radio antennas, rather than mirrors and cameras, to detect radio emission from astronomical objects. Many things in the Universe emit radio waves, including stars, planets, ...

New research, published today in Nature Astronomy, found that water may have ... The very first stars formed from the hydrogen and helium that filled the universe after the Big Bang.

Matthews of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg ... Furthermore, the observations detected hydrogen cyanide and acetylene in the atmosphere of WISE-0458. The astronomers explained ...

Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.

Thus they tear through their hot hydrogen at a rapid clip and exhaust ... of black holes is one of the great frontier areas of astronomy. From reading the life story of the stars so far, you ...