When looking at the Earth from space, its hemispheres—northern and southern—appear equally bright. This is particularly unexpected because the Southern...
CC BY-ND For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the...
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence for giant black holes in dwarf galaxies on a collision course. This result from...
A team of astronomers led by Carnegie’s Shubham Kanodia has discovered an unusual planetary system in which a large gas...
Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for example,...
Researchers led by Prof. Shen Yuandeng and his student Tan Song from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of...
A solar radio burst with a signal pattern, akin to that of a heartbeat, has been pinpointed in the Sun’s...
Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet may...
Two decades of monitoring from W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaiʻi reveals a peculiar cloud dubbed X7...
A Japanese startup announced plans Tuesday to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise...
Scientists researching the origin of elements in our galaxy have new insights into how they are transported to Earth, thanks...
The red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, are striking. Scientists suspect it is a frozen...
