The cosmos is a unique laboratory for testing the laws of physics, in particular those of Euler and Einstein. Euler...
While searching for the origins of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB), an international team of astrophysicists may have stumbled upon...
An international team of astronomers has drawn a temperature map of the dust drifting within one of the oldest spiral...
Isotope ratios found in meteorites suggest that a supernova exploded nearby while the sun and solar system were still forming....
How close can a rocky planet be to a star, and still sustain water and life? A recently discovered exoplanet...
An international team of scientists has discovered that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of...
The European Space Agency said on Wednesday its space telescope Euclid is scheduled to launch on July 1, blasting off...
The universe consists of hundreds of billions of galaxies, and for nearby galaxies, distances are mainly measured by classical Cepheids...
Astronomers have mapped 39 interstellar clouds where high-mass stars are expected to form. This large data set shows that the...
Near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy sits an immense object that astronomers call Sagittarius A*. This “supermassive” black...
Using data from the Spitzer space observatory, Dr. Susana Iglesias-Groth, a researcher from The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC),...
The best hope for finding life on another world isn’t listening for coded messages or traveling to distant stars, it’s...
