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

Carbon dioxide is a robust marker of high metallicity, a term used in astronomy to describe atmospheres rich in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. Planets with high metallicity are often ...

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

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

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.

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 ...

But wait; it turns out that the round bottom of a wok is the perfect shape for gathering something else — radio waves, specifically the 21-cm neutral hydrogen emissions coming from the heart of ...

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 ...