Science October 28, 2020

Galaxies in the Infant Universe were Surprisingly Mature

Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected.

Science October 12, 2020

Studying the Sun as a Star to Understand Stellar Flares and Exoplanets

The sunspots cause some emissions to dim and others to brighten; the timing of the changes also varies between different types of emissions. This knowledge will help astronomers characterize the conditions of stars, which has important implications for finding exoplanets around those stars.

Science September 29, 2020

Second Alignment Plane of Solar System Discovered

Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to either the well-known ecliptic plane where the planets reside or a newly discovered “empty ecliptic.”

Science September 25, 2020

Pair of Massive Baby Stars Swaddled in Salty Water Vapor

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby stars growing in salty cosmic soup.

Science September 16, 2020

Unraveling a Spiral Stream of Dusty Embers from a Massive Binary Stellar Forge

A team of astronomers was able to capture the spiral motion of newly formed dust streaming from the massive and evolved binary star system Wolf-Rayet (WR) 112.

Science September 15, 2020

Phosphine on Venus – A step forward to understand biomarker molecule

An international team of astronomers detected phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus.

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Science September 4, 2020

Misaligned Planet-Forming Rings around Triple Young Stars

An international team of astronomers using the ALMA found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple star GW Orionis.

Science August 31, 2020

Can Black Hole Fire Up Cold Heart of the Phoenix?

Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation Phoenix.

Science August 27, 2020

Rare encounters between cosmic heavyweights

Using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) imaging data on the Subaru Telescope and other large telescopes, astronomers confirmed three "dual quasars," two of them were previously unknown. Thanks to these new discoveries, it's expected that the understanding of galaxies, their growth, and supermassive black holes will continue.

Science August 13, 2020

That Must’ve Hurt: Ganymede Covered by Giant Crater

Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have investigated the orientation and distribution of the ancient tectonic troughs on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede through a detailed reanalysis of image data from probe missions.