Washington, June 10 (ANI): Astronomers have been puzzled about the origin of a supernova remnant in space, which has a very different look. This object, known as SNR 0104-72.3 (SNR 0104 for short), is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a ... Read More »
New technique could find water and life on Earth-like planets
Washington, May 27 (ANI): Using instruments aboard the Deep Impact spacecraft, a team of astronomers and astrobiologists has devised a technique to tell whether an Earth-like exoplanet harbors liquid water, which in turn could tell whether it might be able ... Read More »
Scientists discover mysterious ‘space blob’ at cosmic dawn
Washington, April 23 (ANI): Using information from a suite of telescopes, astronomers have discovered a mysterious, giant ‘space blob’ that existed at a time when the universe was only about 800 million years old. Dubbed extended Lyman-Alpha blobs, such objects ... Read More »
When mammoth galaxy clusters collide in a ‘cosmic free-for-all’
Washington, April 17 (ANI): By combining information from three different telescopes, scientists are learning what happens when some of the largest galaxy clusters in the Universe collide with each other in a cosmic free-for-all. Galaxy clusters are the largest objects ... Read More »