Quasars are extremely luminous galactic cores where gas and dust falling into a central supermassive black hole emit enormous amounts...
The nearest millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 has a radius of 11.4 kilometers and a mass 1.4 times that of the...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers including Paola Caselli, Barbara Michela Giuliano and Basile Husquinet...
The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible “glue” of the universe, continue to be shrouded in mystery. Though...
A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an...
Gravitational waves, ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein almost a century ago, were detected for the first time in 2015....
An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades...
Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together –...
A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which takes constant observations,...
Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most...
Planetary scientists are proposing a new definition of a planet to replace one that many researchers view as sun-centric and...
Astronauts on spacewalks famously have to relieve themselves inside their spacesuits. Not only is this uncomfortable for the wearer and...
