Set to launch on Dec. 22, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest space observatory in history, and it...
When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that is, contrary to what was believed until recently, shaped like a...
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part...
Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked...
UCLA astronomers have identified 366 new exoplanets, thanks in large part to an algorithm developed by a UCLA postdoctoral scholar....
An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has observed the atmosphere...
Surrounded by a vast ocean underneath a thick ice shell, Enceladus is a hot candidate for potentially harboring alien life....
Researchers have analyzed samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft and found uracil, one...
Researchers from the University of Strasbourg have demonstrated that hydrogen gas and simple metals or meteorites cause parts of the...
In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences depicted...
Powered by supermassive black holes swallowing matter in the centers of galaxies, active galactic nuclei are the most powerful compact...
The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international...