Researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have examined data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and discovered an ancient galaxy with a spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang.
Researchers have been successful in ascertaining the age of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy with extraordinary accuracy by merging data from the stars’ oscillations with information about their chemical composition.
Andrea Isella of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University discusses the search for baby planets and the astrophysics of planet formation.
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Professor Edwin Bergin, of the Department of Astronomy at University of Michigan and Dariusz Lis at NASA JPL-Caltech, discuss the astrochemical origins of water...
Research led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that orbital flashes, caused by excess space debris, occur 1,000 times an hour.
A team of Columbian researchers suggest that an early model could solve the mystery behind the relationship between dark energy and the cosmological constant.
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Astrophysicists have conducted the first major survey of distant star systems and challenged our understanding of the evolution of galaxies.
Around 12 billion years ago,...
Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, have demonstrated the first use of self-calibration to remove contamination from gravitational lensing signals, paving...