For a new study, a team of physicists recruited roughly 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder to...
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and...
A “beautiful effect” predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized X-rays emitted by a...
There is a reason that NASA’s Opportunity rover explored Mars’s Meridiani Planum region for 14 years: The locale could hold...
Re-analysis of data from NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, along with new computer modeling, has led NASA scientists to conclude that four...
With a single letter seemingly etched in the X-ray glow around it, a giant black hole at the center of...
More accurate space-weather predictions and safer satellite navigation through radiation belts could someday result from new insights into “space waves,”...
The young star TW Hydrae is playing “shadow puppets” with scientists observing it with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In 2017,...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found, for the first time, the fingerprints left by the explosion of...
By studying countless stars at various stages of their evolution, astronomers have been able to piece together an understanding of...
In August 1865, a 10-pound rock fell from space to Earth, landing with a bang in the remote village of...
