An advanced new three-dimensional (3D) computer simulation of the light emitted following a merger of two neutron stars has produced...
Astronomers have created a detailed atlas of almost 400,000 galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. The Siena Galaxy Atlas was compiled...
Spider pulsars are a subclass of millisecond pulsar binary systems with low mass companions in short-period orbits. In spider pulsars,...
China is building a new neutrino detector named TRIDENT, the Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope. They’re building it in the South...
A research team led by Dr. Zhang Jujia from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Wang...
A global team of scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the...
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b,...
One of the most exciting findings from NASA’s Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt...
The Space Age is leaving fingerprints on one of the most remote parts of the planet—the stratosphere—which has potential implications...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Galaxy Cruise, a citizen science project led by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has been sailing the cosmic...
An international team led by Dr. Florian Peißker at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Astrophysics has analyzed in detail...
