15-09-14 Midnight, Talking About Our Exes Ada Limn The sun is still down and maybe even downer. Two owls, one white and one large-eared, dive into a nothingness that is a field, night-beast in the swoop-down, (the way we all have to make a living). Let's be...

15-08-17 A team of researchers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could provide a new understanding of how planets formed around our sun. The new planet, called 51 Eridani b, is the first exoplanet discovered by the Gemini Planet...

15-08-04 Physicists at the University of York have revealed a new understanding of nucleosynthesis in stars, providing insight into the role massive stars play in the evolution of the Milky Way and the origins of the Solar System. Radioactive aluminium (alum...

15-07-30 The chemical element lithium has been found for the first time in material ejected by a nova. Observations of Nova Centauri 2013 made using telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory, and near Santiago in Chile, help to explain the mystery of why many...

15-07-30 Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen in an object beyond our Solar System. The aurora -- similar to the famous Northern Lights on Earth -- is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen. They found the aurora not from a pla...

15-07-07 It's a right. John is looking at the sky. Tom is John's younger brother. He asks John What are you doing? John says, I'm counting stars. Tom laughs and says, It's really dark now. Why not count them tomorrow morning? 这是一个晚上。约翰抬头看着天空。...

15-06-29 Astronomers expect that galaxies grow by swallowing smaller galaxies. But the evidence is usually not easy to see -- just as the remains of the water thrown from a glass into a pond will quickly merge with the pond water, the stars in the infalling...

15-06-24 A group of researchers from the Stony Brook University (the State University of New York) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has discovered 854 ultra dark galaxies in the Coma Cluster by analyzing archival data from the Subaru Telesc...

15-04-13 Certain types of supernovae, or exploding stars, are more diverse than previously thought, a University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has discovered. The results, reported in two papers published in the Astrophysical Journal, have implications...

15-03-13 The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples. The research, conducted by an international team led by Renssel...