Nearly 5,000 kilometers above the sun’s surface lies a century-old question for solar physicists—how are temperatures in the star’s upper...
In a study published today in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, researchers at the University of Toronto reveal...
Scientists have taken a journey back in time to unlock the mysteries of Earth’s early history, using tiny mineral crystals...
MIRI instrument on JWST detects H-alpha emission during the Epoch of Reionization for the first time
An international team of astronomers led by Pierluigi Rinaldi of the University of Groningen has detected for the first time...
The universe is big, and it’s getting bigger. To study dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of...
Sodium chloride, better known as table salt, isn’t exactly the type of mineral that captures the imagination of scientists. However,...
The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away...
In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque—energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But 1 billion...
According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, time and space are fused together in a quantity known as spacetime. The...
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from the University of Naples “Federico II,” the University...
It’s tough accomplishing everything we want to get done in a day. But it would have been even more difficult...
So far, astrophysicists have only detected gravitational waves from binary systems—the mergers of either two black holes, two neutron stars...
