For the first time, an instrument to find planets light years away was used on an object in the solar...
In November 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope observed a massive cluster of galaxies named MACS J0138.0-2155. Through an effect...
Neutron stars are the end products of massive stars and gather together a large part of the original stellar mass...
A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand how it formed and the origins of our...
Analysis of organic compounds—called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—extracted from the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite has found that certain PAHs...
While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern...
An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and involving the University of Bonn has...
The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray...
Like a celestial beacon, distant quasars make the brightest light in the universe. They emit more light than our entire...
A vast, flat, “featureless” plain on Mars surprised researchers by revealing a much more tumultuous geologic past than expected, according...
Blue Origin launched its first rocket in more than a year on Tuesday, reviving the US company’s fortunes with a...
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a modeling tool for assessing the potential use of a nuclear...
