Showers in bathrooms bring us comfort; showers from space bring astrophysicists joy. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have observed, with their...
Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of...
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have...
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just...
A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be...
When a space rock survives the turbulent passage through Earth’s atmosphere and strikes the surface, it generates shockwaves that can...
The James Webb Space Telescope has made one of the most unexpected findings within its first year of service: A...
A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole...
Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our solar system. Approximately half a billion asteroids with...
For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the...
Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the precise location of a powerful energy source hidden by cosmic...
A team of astronomers led by Carnegie’s Shubham Kanodia has discovered an unusual planetary system in which a large gas...