What’s the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is basically a dirty iceball composed of rock and...
Using MeerKAT data, an international team including astronomers from MPIfR (Bonn, Germany) has compiled the largest catalog of radio sources...
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, a multiday orbital expedition set to feature the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens, is now...
People have observed the bright Martian poles wax and wane for centuries, but only within the last 50 years have...
Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher has realized that...
Symbiotic binary stars are a type of binary star system that consists of a compact star (such as a white...
New research helps in understanding the evolution and final stages of massive stars, the role of binary interactions, and the...
Johns Hopkins engineers have uncovered new details about how granular materials such as sand and rock behave under extreme impacts—findings...
Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has provided crucial data to answer the decades-long question of where the energy comes from to...
Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these...
In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists have proposed the features of the rapid neutron capture process (r-process)...
