Researchers from HSE University have developed a mathematical model that explains the levitation of charged dust particles over the sunlit...
Space travel can be agonizingly slow: For example, the New Horizons probe took almost 10 years to reach Pluto. Traveling...
Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear to be orbiting around...
A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System’s history could help scientists reconstruct...
The phenomenon of fast radio bursts is one of the greatest mysteries of modern astrophysics. Until now it has been...
A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team...
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from...
The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its...
In its early days, the Milky Way was like a giant smoothie, as if galaxies consisting of billions of stars,...
MIT astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of the perpetual dark side of an exoplanet that is “tidally locked”...
The James Webb Space Telescope team continues to make progress in aligning the observatory’s mirrors. Engineers have completed the first...
The mass of dust and bright swirls of stars in this image are the distant galaxy merger IC 2431, which...
