NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope obtained images of the Ring Nebula, one of the best-known examples of a planetary nebula....
French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth...
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical...
Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all...
For the first time in nearly three decades of observations, clouds seen on Neptune have all but vanished. Images from...
The space industry has changed dramatically since the Apollo program put men on the moon in the late 1960s. Today,...
Scientists have conducted the first ever 3D simulation of a star’s entire evolutionary phase thanks to new simulation technologies. An...
The search for exoplanets—planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system—is a hot topic in astrophysics....
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers racing to find some of the earliest galaxies ever glimpsed have now...
Researchers have found a new way to measure dark energy—the mysterious force that makes up more than two-thirds of the...
The universe is humming with gravitational radiation—a very low-frequency rumble that rhythmically stretches and compresses spacetime and the matter embedded...
The largest storm in the solar system, a 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone called the Great Red Spot, has decorated Jupiter’s surface for...
