Project News

GALEX • June 6th, 2017

Data from the GALEX spacecraft suggest that planets around cool dwarf stars may be subjected to intense flares.

GALEX • July 11th, 2016

The galaxy UGC 1382 has been revealed to be far larger and stranger than previously thought. Astronomers relied on a combination of ground-based and space telescopes to uncover...

GALEX • September 16th, 2015

Entangled by gravity and destined to merge, two candidate black holes in a distant galaxy appear to be locked in an intricate dance. Researchers using data from NASA's Galaxy...

GALEX • March 26th, 2015

A new report identifies top-of-the-line tools for studying the fabric of space.

GALEX • October 15th, 2014

What makes one rose bush blossom with flowers, while another remains barren? Astronomers ask a similar question of galaxies.

GALEX • June 28th, 2013

NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions...

GALEX • April 11th, 2013

A duo of astronomers, Dr. Youichi Ohyama (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica or ASIAA, Taiwan) and Dr. Ananda Hota (UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in the...

GALEX • April 4th, 2013

The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.

GALEX • January 10th, 2013

The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil have...

GALEX • October 3rd, 2012

What was once a fairly average star, not much different than our sun, can be seen unraveling at the seams in this new image from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes.