Scientists working with the powerful telescopes at Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have completed a...
Ordinarily, planets in evolved planetary systems, such as the solar system, follow stable orbits around their central star. However, many...
Space exploration is a complex and risky mission that requires careful preparation and a thorough understanding of the challenges inherent...
For more than five years, scientists at the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica have been observing the sky with an...
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime...
US companies are set to launch for the moon on February 14, less than a month since a similar mission...
A new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has produced a compressed 14-year movie of the sun observed in gamma...
The most powerful events in the known universe—gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)—are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with...
Hidden beneath the heavily cratered surface of Mimas, one of Saturn’s smallest moons lies a secret: a global ocean of...
Astronomers have detected an extreme eruption from a young star that became more than a hundred times brighter in only...
Employing massive data sets collected through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a research team led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick...
The search for habitable exoplanets involves looking for planets with similar conditions to the Earth, such as liquid water, a...
