Understanding how a thermonuclear flame spreads across the surface of a neutron star—and what that spreading can tell us about...
Everyone loves a two-for-one deal—even physicists looking to tackle unanswered questions about the cosmos. Now, scientists at the Department of...
Astronomers have revealed that a brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although it is responsible for...
The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial...
Many people in the U.S. will have an opportunity to witness nearly four minutes of a total solar eclipse on...
Billions of years ago, Mars was home to abundant water, and its Gale crater contained a lake. Gradually, the climate...
An international piece of research, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has found clues to the nature...
It takes two to tango, but in the case of brown dwarfs that were once paired as binary systems, that...
Using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a study led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
The dust of comets fills the space between the planets, collectively called the zodiacal cloud. Still, severe breakdown has reduced...
A challenge to space scientists to better understand our hazardous near-Earth space environment has been set in a new study...
ESA’s Gaia space telescope has further disentangled the history of our galaxy, discovering two surprising streams of stars that formed...
