It’s 7 billion years ago, and the universe’s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky...
Boeing will attempt to return its problem-plagued capsule from the International Space Station later this week—with empty seats. NASA said...
Exoplanets form in protoplanetary disks, a collection of space dust and gas orbiting a star. The leading theory of planetary...
What’s the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is basically a dirty iceball composed of rock and...
Using MeerKAT data, an international team including astronomers from MPIfR (Bonn, Germany) has compiled the largest catalog of radio sources...
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, a multiday orbital expedition set to feature the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens, is now...
People have observed the bright Martian poles wax and wane for centuries, but only within the last 50 years have...
Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher has realized that...
Symbiotic binary stars are a type of binary star system that consists of a compact star (such as a white...
New research helps in understanding the evolution and final stages of massive stars, the role of binary interactions, and the...
Johns Hopkins engineers have uncovered new details about how granular materials such as sand and rock behave under extreme impacts—findings...
Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly...
