A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center....
A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as...
While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a...
New findings using data from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature...
Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of electromagnetic radiation...
A newly discovered star could challenge some models of how stars evolve and the way they produce elements as they...
EIRSAT-1, the student-built satellite from University College Dublin (UCD) that was launched into space last December, detected two separate gamma-ray...
Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star roughly 700 light-years from Earth
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars...
Encircling Earth are the Van Allen radiation belts—vast, doughnut-shaped rings of highly energetic charged particles, mostly originating from the sun,...
Scientists at the SETI Institute and partners from Penn State University used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to search for...
The background noise of gravitational waves from orbiting white dwarf stars will be stronger than the noise from binary black...
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and...
