A team of astronomers led by Takatoshi Shibuya, Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa, Dr. Kazuaki Ota, and Dr. Masanori Iye (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) has used the Subaru and Keck Telescopes to discover the most distant ...
Astronomy
Jun 4, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets, wandering through space instead of orbiting a star.
Astronomy
Feb 23, 2012
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NASA is seeking friends for a new game the US space agency launched on Facebook.
Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2012
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Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars and other celestial objects—two ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2012
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At the heart of most celestial objects is a dynamo. The Earth's dynamo, spun to life in the molten metal core of our planet, generates a magnetic field that helps us find north and, perhaps more critically, shields us from ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 21, 2011
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NASA's Juno spacecraft is 30 days before its first launch window opens.
Space Exploration
Jul 6, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A hot Jupiter - a type of celestial object unknown only fifteen years ago - is a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting so close to its host star that its atmospheric temperature is thought to be hundreds of degrees ...
Astronomy
Mar 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the "Planck" satellite mission present first results in a conference in Paris.
Astronomy
Feb 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy successfully completed telescope assembly activation during an almost six-hour test flight Jan. 15.
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Herschel observatory is back to full operation following the reactivation of its HiFi instrument. HiFi, having been offline for 160 days while engineers investigated an unexpected problem in the electronic ...
Astronomy
Jan 20, 2010
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