Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across...
Astronomers observe X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole that accelerate mysteriously
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise...
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin will have to wait a little longer for the long-anticipated maiden orbital flight of its brand-new...
A quarter of a century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is finally ready for its maiden orbital voyage...
A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, introduces a newly defined “filament channel” function. This new function provides a...
Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious “dark energy”—locally, galaxies cluster through...
Stars are born in clouds of gas and dust, making it difficult to observe their early development. But researchers at...
A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has been explained for the...
A team led by researchers at the University of Tokyo has created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new...
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese...
Researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a breakthrough technique that could lay the foundations for...
