Astronomer Deciphers Crab Pulsar’s Zebra Stripes
New research from the University of Kansas untangles a decades-old astrophysical puzzle, showing how competing forces — gravity’s…
Jupiter is Smaller and More ‘Squashed’ than Previously Believed, New Juno Data Reveal
Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, planetary scientists derived…
Millions Joined SETI@home Project, Now Astronomers Zero In on 100 Promising Signals
SETI@home, the pioneering distributed-computing project launched in 1999 that enlisted millions of volunteers to analyze radio signals from…
Astronomers Discover Triple System of Active Galactic Nuclei 1.2 Billion Light-Years Away
A rare trio of merging galaxies called J121/1219+1035 hosts three actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes, according to…
Green Bank Telescope Maps Cool ‘Dark’ Gas in Cygnus X
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have created the large-scale maps of carbon monoxide (CO)-dark molecular gas…
RadioAstron Captures Radio Image of Two Supermassive Black Holes Circling Each Other
Using data from the RadioAstron satellite, astronomers have produced a radio image of two supermassive black holes at…
Infant Universe Was Warm, Rather than Cold, before It Lit Up, Astronomers Say
Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory, astronomers are searching for the elusive…