Showers in bathrooms bring us comfort; showers from space bring astrophysicists joy. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have observed, with their...
The James Webb Space Telescope has made one of the most unexpected findings within its first year of service: A...
Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of...
A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole...
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have...
An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA...
Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our solar system. Approximately half a billion asteroids with...
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just...
For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the...
Europe’s Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark...
A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be...
Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the precise location of a powerful energy source hidden by cosmic...