About 400,000 years after the universe was created began a period called “The Epoch of Reionization.” During this time, the once...
The discovery of a supermassive black hole in a relatively small galaxy could help astronomers unravel the mystery surrounding how...
A joint research team led by Profs. Lin Yangting and Lin Honglei from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of...
Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look Up” is no exception – in fact,...
NASA’s new space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror Saturday, the final step in the observatory’s dramatic unfurling. The...
Led by the University of Bern, an international research team has discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star....
One of the characteristic features of modern cosmology is its description of how galaxies evolve: via a hierarchical process of...
For the very first time, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life, watching...
No longer solely in the realm of science fiction, the possibility of interstellar travel has appeared, tantalizingly, on the horizon....
“I see thy glory like a shooting star.” So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future...
A remarkable link between the number of nearby exploding stars, called supernovae, and life on Earth has been discovered. Evidence...
Magnetic fields are the essential, but often “secret” ingredients of the interstellar medium and the process of making stars. The...
