A new series of supercomputer simulations has offered an answer to the mystery of the origins of Saturn’s rings—one that...
The nearby radio galaxy M87, located 55 million light-years from the Earth and harboring a black hole 6.5 billion times...
A newly discovered nearby supernova whose star ejected up to a full solar mass of material in the year prior...
Scientists have theorized how galaxies evolve, but details in their early phase of formation remained shrouded in celestial clouds of...
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part...
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space—a flash that lasts only instants but puts...
The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater by...
As hopes dim of further contact with India’s moon rover, the country’s space chief has said he was satisfied with...
Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds—and NASA’s...
Much like humans, galaxies are shaped by the environment in which they form. While no two are exactly alike, they...
New guidelines are needed to assure that research on human subjects performed on commercial spaceflights is conducted ethically, a panel...
Biotechnospheres as part of planetary intelligence and the search for extraterrestrial civilizations
by Irina K. Romanovskaya To safeguard Earth’s biosphere, scientists have turned toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the hope that it...
