The massive swirling storm system was originally thought to have been discovered by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, but a new study found it was not the most recent spot. That means ...

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

The appearance of one of Saturn's smallest moons lends it the nickname "Death Star," but astronomers say new ... made possible by NASA's Saturn-probing Cassini spacecraft led to the discovery ...

Astronomers have detected a new tidally pulsator star (TTP) by analyzing the data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The newfound pulsator, designated TIC 435850195, belongs ...

By David W. Brown Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up. By Katrina Miller The ...

Even if the stars within those boundaries change, the boundaries themselves do not. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Every astronomical object, regardless of its nature, now unequivocally belongs to ...

The new result can help ... Sep. 16, 2024 — Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they ...

Chandra has the most resolving power of any X-ray telescope ever built, and for 25 years has provided astronomers with penetrating views of the invisible universe, including stellar explosions ...

Astronomers—who study the positions and motions of the planets—call it retrograde motion and regard it as an inevitable consequence of how the planets move. The observation that planets ...

Combining both orchestration and observability into its core technology proposition, Astronomer, the company behind the Astro data orchestration platform, has now created Astro Observe.

Chinese astronomers have conducted multi-frequency polarimetric observations of a quasar known as 1604+159. Results of the observational campaign, published August 13 on the pre-print server arXiv ...