Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is...
Astronomers have discovered that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far-ultraviolet (far-UV) radiation levels much higher than...
While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a...
One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not found any...
The stars aren’t fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where...
Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white...
The sun rotates the fastest at the equator, whereas the rotation rate slows down at higher latitudes and is the...
A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of...
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bern has used observation-based computer modeling to find an explanation...
In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT—the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an MPIA-led team of astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star...
Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters’ vast clouds of dark...
