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Aug 20, 2014 (SPX)

An Arizona State University alumna has devised the largest catalog ever produced for stellar compositions. Called the Hypatia Catalog, after one of the first fe...

ISS Spacewalkers Deploy Nanosatellite, Install and Retrieve Science

Aug 19, 2014 (SPX)

Two Expedition 40 spacewalkers, clad in Russian Orlan spacesuits, wrapped up a 5-hour, 11-minute excursion outside the International Space Station at 3:13 p.m. ...

New Milky Way maps help solve stubborn interstellar material mystery

Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)

An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Mil...

Stardust Team Reports Discovery of First Potential Interstellar Particles

Aug 15, 2014 (SPX)

Seven rare, microscopic interstellar dust particles that date to the beginnings of the solar system are among the samples collected by scientists who have been ...

Stardust grains may reveal first look at interstellar space

Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)

Seven grains of stardust that are believed to come from outside our solar system are revealing new hints about what the universe is made of, scientists said Thu...

Hubble Finds Supernova Star System Linked To Zombie Star

Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted a star system that could have left behind a "zombie star" after an unusually weak superno...

White dwarfs crashing into neutron stars explain loneliest supernovae

Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)

A research team led by astronomers and astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found that some of the Universe's loneliest supernovae are likely creat...

NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Reveals New Source of Gamma Rays

Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)

Observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of several stellar eruptions, called novae, firmly establish these relatively common outbursts almost alw...

ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs

Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in th...

Our galaxy is way smaller than previous estimates

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

The Milky Way is smaller than astronomers previously thought, according to new research. For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely measure the ...

Mysterious molecules in space

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

Over the vast, empty reaches of interstellar space, countless small molecules tumble quietly though the cold vacuum. Forged in the fusion furnaces of ancient st...

Astronomers measure weight of galaxies, expansion of universe

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers at the University of British Columbia have collaborated with international researchers to calculate the precise mass of the Milky Way and Andromeda ...

Glow in Space is Evidence of A Hot Bubble in Our Galaxy

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

When we look up to the heavens on a clear night, we see an immense dark sky with uncountable stars. With a small telescope we can also see galaxies, nebulae, an...

The source of the sky's X-ray glow

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

In findings that help astrophysicists understand our corner of the galaxy, an international research team has shown that the soft X-ray glow blanketing the sky ...

Lives and Deaths of Sibling Stars

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

In this striking new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust. T...

Mysterious dance of dwarfs may force a cosmic rethink

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

The discovery that many small galaxies throughout the universe do not 'swarm' around larger ones like bees do but 'dance' in orderly disc-shaped orbits is a cha...

Australian researchers pioneer a Google street view of galaxies

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

A new home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres is giving Australian astronomers the first 'Google street view' of the cosmos - incredibly detail...

Sun-like Stars Reveal Their Ages

Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)

Defining what makes a star "Sun-like" is as difficult as defining what makes a planet "Earth-like." A solar twin should have a temperature, mass, and spectral t...

Astronomers Bring The Third Dimension To A Doomed Star's Outburst

Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)

In the middle of the 19th century, the massive binary system Eta Carinae underwent an eruption that ejected at least 10 times the sun's mass and made it the sec...

Merging galaxies and droplets of starbirth

Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)

The Universe is filled with objects springing to life, evolving and dying explosive deaths. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a s...