Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a “flame-throwing guitar” has now been spotted moving through...
Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence...
With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a celestial treat –...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing...
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would...
When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted...
Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers...
Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early...
How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or...
In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor...
On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory,...
