The Astrophysical Journal

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  NASA's Hubble Telescope Detects Water Vapour In Small Exoplanet's Atmosphere

  The findings of the study appeared in a report published on Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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  Elusive Dark Galaxy Revealed By ALMA Telescope Observations: Report

  This month, The Astrophysical Journal published a study on a "very unusual" galaxy conducted by a team of researchers at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Sissa) in Italy.

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  Buckminsterfullerene Species Likely the Source of Unidentified Infrared Emission

  In a new study, researchers have applied the first principle of quantum chemical calculations to predict the mid-infrared signatures of the ionised forms of fullerene. The team has noted that some positively charged fullerenes have strong emission bands that substantially match with the position of key astronomical UIE emission features at 11.21, 1...

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  Study Explains Blinking Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Falling Stardust, Unsteady Jets

  Astrophysicists have developed the first 3D simulation of the entire evolution of a jet from its birth by a rotating black hole to its emission far from the collapsing star. Simulation explains that as the star collapses, its material falls on the disk that swirls around the black hole. This falling material tilts the disk, and, in turn, tilts the ...

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  Astronomers May Have Discovered a Black Hole Candidate Through Gravitational Microlensing

  A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, has discovered what appears to be a free-floating black hole for the first time using gravitational microlensing. The unseen compact object's mass is estimated to be between 1.6 and 4.4 times that of the Sun, according to the astronomers.

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  Hubble Space Telescope Captures World’s Largest Near-Infrared Image to Locate Universe’s Most Distant Galaxies

  An international team of scientists has released the Hubble Space Telescope's largest near-infrared image ever. The latest find will allow astronomers to map the universe's star-forming regions and learn how the oldest, most distant galaxies formed.

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  Astronomers Discover Hidden Trove of Massive Black Holes, Can Help Understand the Milky Way’s Origin

  A group of researchers has found a previously overlooked trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies. These black holes, the researchers believe, can offer insights into the journey of the supermassive black hole that sits at the centre of the Milky Way.

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  Study Throws Light on Milky Way's Most Recent Major Collision

  Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) have detailed the last major merger of the Milky Way in a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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  First Images of 'Cosmic Web' Reveal Maze of Dwarf Galaxies

  Scientists in France have for the first time seen the incandescent filaments of hydrogen gas known as the "cosmic web”. Eight months of observation with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and a year of data crunching revealed the filaments as they existed only one to two billion years after the Big Bang.

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  Astronomers Spot Unusual Star Forming Like a Planet

  A faint object, MM 1b, was detected just beyond the disc in orbit around MM 1a, according to the study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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  Liquid Water Found On Mars: Underground Lake Discovery Makes Waves

  Using a satellite to peer beneath layers of dust and ice at Mars' south pole, scientists have detected a 12-mile-wide span of briny water, a large, stable reservoir akin to lakes buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth.

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  There's A New Planet In The Neighborhood - And It Looks Like A Nice Place To Live

  One of our closest celestial neighbors is a warm, rocky world, scientists say. Writing in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, scientists report the discovery of an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting the star Ross 128, a dim red dwarf just 11 light-years away

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  Mysterious Radio Burst Came From A Galaxy 2.5 Billion Light Years Away, Astronomers Discover

  A dim dwarf galaxy 2.5 billion light years from Earth is sending out the mysterious millisecond-long blasts of radio waves, researchers report Wednesday in Nature and Astrophysical Journal Letters. The bursts traverse vast expanses of time and intergalactic space before reaching our planet.

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  Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought: Study

  The universe contains a staggering two trillion galaxies, up to 20 times more than previously thought, a new research has found.

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  Moons Of Saturn May Be Younger Than Dinosaurs: Study

  Some of Saturn's icy moons as well as its famous rings might be modern adornments, and their dramatic birth may have taken place a mere hundred million years ago, more recent than the reign of many dinosaurs, a new study suggests.