Our solar system dwells in a low-density environment called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), filled by a tenuous, million-degree hot...
by Anne J. Manning, Harvard Gazette Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years...
Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star...
Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion...
Seeing a black hole’s jet in a new light: A look at high-energy particles being blasted across space
Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades’ worth of data from NASA’s Chandra...
Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In...
A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a...
At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers...
Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole...
Since its launch in late 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has raised the possibility that we could detect signs...
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young star...
A study published in The Astrophysical Journal presents new simulation results of supernova explosions that explain the latest observational data...
