NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A)....
There’s a lot of trash on the Moon right now – including nearly 100 bags of human waste – and...
Last year, Northwestern University researchers reported new observational evidence that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can result from the merger of...
In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled...
Scientists from The University of New Mexico (UNM), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detected and validated two of...
After a complex statistical analysis of some one million galaxies, a team of researchers at several Chinese universities, and the...
Dark matter is a keystone assumption in the current understanding of the universe. Yet, the elemental identity of dark matter...
Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree...
Chromium hydride (CrH), a molecule that’s relatively rare and particularly sensitive to temperature, is useful as a “thermometer for stars,”...
A research team led by Prof. Wang Junxian and Ph.D. students Kang Jialai from University of Science and Technology of...
Nothing can evoke an existential perspective-spiral quite like looking at an image of a galaxy. At first glance, these sublime...
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered a multitude of tiny jets of material escaping from the sun’s outer atmosphere....
