A giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a...
On Oct. 5, 2020, the rapidly rotating corpse of a long-dead star about 30,000 light years from Earth changed speeds....
Meteorites have told Imperial researchers the likely far-flung origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks...
Cosmic rays (CR) constitute high-energy particles that mainly originate outside our solar system. These primary CR interact with interstellar matter...
Astronomers have developed a powerful technique for identifying starspots, according to research presented this month at the 241st meeting of...
Earth’s potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service finds new research led by Carnegie’s Nicole Nie and Da Wang. Their work,...
Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA’s Fermi...
NASA is partnering with a Pentagon research agency to develop a nuclear-powered rocket engine in preparation for sending astronauts to...
In 2013, Felipe Braga-Ribas and collaborators, using ground-based telescopes, discovered that Chariklo hosts a system of two thin rings. Such...
Asteroid 2023 BU is about the size of a box truck and is predicted to make one of the closest...
A new study led by a joint team at Nagoya University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has measured...
Europe’s JUICE spacecraft is all ready to embark on an eight-year odyssey through the Solar System to find out whether...
