A citizen science project, which invites members of the public to take part in identifying cosmic explosions, has already identified...
SpaceX’s upcoming Polaris Dawn mission aims to be historic in more ways than one. Polaris Dawn plans to not only...
The death of a massive, rapidly spinning star can shake the universe. And the resulting ripples—known as gravitational waves—could be...
Water plays a crucial role in human survival on the lunar surface, thus attracting extensive research attention. Prof. Wang Junqiang’s...
An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when...
An unusual pair of 10-billion-year-old stars, formed when the Milky Way was young, are visiting from the farthest reaches of...
Most space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission independently. Whether it was a...
A longstanding ‘conspiracy’ in astronomy—that stars and dark matter are interacting in inexplicable ways—has been overturned by an international team...
Thanks to observations by the Solar Occultation in the Infrared (SOIR) instrument on the Venus Express space probe of the...
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have succeeded in something that has been pursued since the 1970s: explaining the X-ray...
Planets are bodies that orbit a star and have sufficient gravitational mass that they form themselves into roughly spherical shapes...
Researchers using Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have identified new details about the size...
