Новости за 07.01.2016

Many dying stars just a little bit more massive than the sun have superpowerful magnetic fields hidden away inside that likely play an important role in how such stars change over time, scientists say.

Does Earth belong to the first generation of habitable planets in the universe? One astrophysicist's work suggest it's possible, although we may never know for sure.

Much like volcanoes on Earth, a 100 mile-wide, 13,000 foot-high mountain on the cold dwarf planet sports a deep depression (35 mi. across). Its features are.

NASA’s next big astronomy mission after the James Webb Space Telescope will become a formal project in February thanks to increased funding from Congress.

Data gleaned by China’s Yutu rover on the Moon has identified a new type of lunar basalt, shedding insight on lunar volcanism. As noted by the state-run Xinhua news agency, the new type of basaltic rock was discovered at a fresh crater named Zi Wei.

A helium balloon-borne color camera, launched by astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), captured stratospheric altitude video of numerous space rocks slamming into Earth's atmosphere in January 2016.

A NASA observatory has zoomed in on the Andromeda galaxy with X-ray vision and spotted 40 black holes or neutron stars gobbling down gas from stellar companions.

Astronomers have found five star systems beyond the Milky Way galaxy that resemble Eta Carinae, a binary star system cloaked in a veil of dust and gas from an enormous, long-ago eruption.

Launching experiments in rockets from the Arctic Circle gives ample opportunity to view the Northern Lights.

On Friday (Jan. 8), the planet Venus will appear to pass close by Saturn, making this a rare opportunity to see two planets at the same time in a telescope's narrow field of view.

The new year kicked off with just a single bright planet visible in the early evening, but five of them will be visible simultaneously by the end of January.

More than a thousand times farther from Earth than the moon, farther even than the sun, an extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition is taking place.

Once life gets started in dense stellar groups, it could quickly go interstellar, thanks to old stars and close neighbors.

A surprisingly light supermassive black hole may have shed pounds thanks to a galaxy-merger crash diet, astronomers say.