Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers...
A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” holds more mystery but is even less likely to...
New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy—the earliest...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our...
At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex...
An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars are...
MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over...
Stargazers in North and South America will be able to view a red-colored “blood moon” starting Thursday night in the...
At least two mass extinction events in Earth’s history were likely caused by the “devastating” effects of nearby supernova explosions,...
Not long to go now: After more than nine months on the International Space Station, two astronauts are a step...
