Cosmic rays (CR) constitute high-energy particles that mainly originate outside our solar system. These primary CR interact with interstellar matter...
Astronomers have developed a powerful technique for identifying starspots, according to research presented this month at the 241st meeting of...
Earth’s potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service finds new research led by Carnegie’s Nicole Nie and Da Wang. Their work,...
Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA’s Fermi...
NASA is partnering with a Pentagon research agency to develop a nuclear-powered rocket engine in preparation for sending astronauts to...
In 2013, Felipe Braga-Ribas and collaborators, using ground-based telescopes, discovered that Chariklo hosts a system of two thin rings. Such...
Asteroid 2023 BU is about the size of a box truck and is predicted to make one of the closest...
A new study led by a joint team at Nagoya University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has measured...
Europe’s JUICE spacecraft is all ready to embark on an eight-year odyssey through the Solar System to find out whether...
An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “cosmic dawn”—the...
It has been believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, must be large...
Astronomers snap first confirmed direct image of a brown dwarf orbiting a star in the Hyades Cluster
A team of astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories in Hawaiʻi—W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope—have photographed a brown dwarf...
