On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory,...
The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and...
On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in...
The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University, the University...
Our solar system dwells in a low-density environment called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), filled by a tenuous, million-degree hot...
by Anne J. Manning, Harvard Gazette Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years...
Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star...
Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion...
Seeing a black hole’s jet in a new light: A look at high-energy particles being blasted across space
Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades’ worth of data from NASA’s Chandra...
Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In...
A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a...
At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers...
