Astronomers

Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active atmosphere. But even with those discoveries, one question lingered in scientists’ minds. How does Pluto regulate its temperature with such a

Science & Nature Astronomers have used Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to show that more than three-quarters of the Universe’s ordinary matter has been hiding...

Science & Nature Astronomers using NSF’s Green Bank Telescope have detected cyanocoronene (C24H11CN) -- the largest PAH ever detected in space -- in the...

Science & Nature Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured spectacular images of an exceptionally structured planet-forming disk around the star RIK...

Science & Nature For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor....

Science & Nature Named 2017 OF201, the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object is one of the most distant visible objects in our Solar System and is...

Science & Nature To make these high-resolution images and movies, astronomers from NSF’s National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology developed a...

Science & Nature Intense radiation from a quasar in one of these galaxies alters the gas properties in the other galaxy and dampens its...