Astronomers

Astronomers Discover Four New White Dwarfs in Solar Neighborhood

Science & Nature Using near-UV spectroscopic data from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered four white...

Astronomers Detect Sugar in Interstellar Space for First Time

Science & Nature Using the Yebes 40-m and IRAM 30-m radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar commonly found in raspberries and...

Astronomers discover another galaxy seemingly devoid of dark matter

A galaxy appears to be missing the invisible substance thought to hold such objects together, further challenging long-held assumptions about how galaxies form By Sam Macdonald edited by Claire Cameron A close-up Hubble image of the galaxy DF9 is shown beneath a wider view of the surrounding NGC 1052 region. Credit: Keim et al./DECaLS/HST NASA

Astronomers Uncover Hidden Structures Surrounding Orion Nebula

Science & Nature Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) s and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have created...

Astronomers Probe Chemistry of Giant Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

Science & Nature Using the upgraded GRAVITY+ instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have measured the ratio of carbon isotopes in...

Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away

Science & Nature Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable zone of its...

Astronomers Find Four Separate Generations of Stars in ‘Globular Cluster’ Terzan 5

Science & Nature New Webb and Hubble data not only confirm the existence of two distinct populations of stars in the ancient stellar system...

Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early Universe

Science & Nature JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source of the high-energy...