Mercury transit observed at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory About 13 times per century, fleeting Mercury can be seen passing directly in front of the Sun in what is called a transit. The most recent Mercury […]
Researchers claim data from Planck space observatory suggests universe is a sphere A trio of researchers with the University of Manchester, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ and Sorbonne Universities has sparked a major debate among […]
Gemini observatory captures multicolor image of first-ever interstellar comet The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in multiple colors. The image of the newly discovered object, […]
Video: The latest look at ‘first light’ from Chandra NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured many spectacular images of cosmic phenomena over its two decades of operations, but perhaps its most iconic is the supernova […]
How black holes shape galaxies Data from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed how supermassive black holes shape their host galaxies with powerful winds that sweep away interstellar matter. In a new study, scientists analysed […]
Fossil from the Big Bang discovered with W. M. Keck Observatory A relic cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, has been discovered in the distant universe by astronomers using the world’s most powerful […]