By Alton Parrish.   Two volunteer participants in an international citizen science project have had a rare galaxy cluster that they found named after them. The pair pieced together the huge C-shaped structure from much smaller images [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Crowdsourcing is used for everything from raising funds to locating the best burger in town. The practice of enlisting a large group of people to provide a service, information or a contribution to a project–most [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution—artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such as ecology, astronomy, health care, [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   The telescope on La Palma produces an image 10 times deeper than any other taken from a ground-based telescope and observes the faint stellar halo of one of our neighboring galaxies, which supports the presently [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Hypothesized by Albert Einstein a century ago, gravitational waves are oscillations in the fabric of spacetime, moving at the speed of light and caused by the acceleration of massive objects. They can be generated, [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Gestural communication in bonobos and chimpanzees shows turn-taking and clearly distinguishable communication styles Human language is a fundamentally cooperative enterprise, embodying fast-paced interactions. [...]

By Alton Parrish.   The interplay of magnetic fields and gravitation in the gas cloud lead to the birth of new stars Space bears witness to a constant stream of star births. And whole star clusters are often formed at the same time – [...]

By Alton Parrish.   New computer simulations from the Georgia Institute of Technology provide a conclusive test for a hypothesis of why the center of the Milky Way appears to be filled with young stars but has very few old ones. According [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Astrophysicists from the University of Birmingham have captured the sounds of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, according to research published today in the Royal Astronomical Society journal Monthly [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio observatory in Chile have made the first high-resolution image of the belt of comets (a region analogous to the Kuiper belt in our [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Gravity: we barely ever think about it, at least until we slip on ice or stumble on the stairs. To many ancient thinkers, gravity wasn’t even a force–it was just the natural tendency of objects to sink toward [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Bugs Bunny hasn’t aged a day since his cartoon debut in 1940, and he rarely wears glasses. He can play all nine positions on a baseball field – at once. He also consistently outwits gangsters, hunters and water [...]

By Alton Parish.   Astronomers have obtained the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding, and it doesn’t agree with predictions based on other data and our current understanding of the physics of the cosmos. A [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Part of Antarctica has been losing ice to the ocean for far longer than had been expected, satellite pictures reveal. A study of images along 2000 kilometers (1,240 miles) of West Antarctica’s coastline has shown [...]

By Alton Parrish.   New stars are the lifeblood of our galaxy, and there is enough material revealed by this Herschel infrared image to build stars for millions of years to come. Situated 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Caltech researchers found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that [...]

By Alton Parrish.     In May when tornadoes are in the news, the National Science Foundation (NSF) spoke with tornado expert and NSF Assistant Director for Geosciences Roger Wakimoto to learn more about these deadly storms — [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet — after Pluto — in the Kuiper Belt. The moon [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Using data from NASA’s Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the early universe that should grow into supermassive black holes. Researchers combined data from NASA’s [...]

By Alton Parrish.   A research team co-led by a scientist at New Zealand’s University of Otago has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2500-year-old Phoenician dubbed the “Young Man of Byrsa” or “Ariche”. This [...]