A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought,...
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered “middle-aged,” and the pictures of what...
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most...
If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks...
After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The...
A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the “radio-quiet” characteristics of four magnetars and...
Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies—and even before the violent explosion...
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as...
Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, according to a modeling paper published in Nature...
A team led by a member of Tokyo Metropolitan University has made advances in the search for dark matter, observing...
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the...
The sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are...
