Black holes are notable for many things, especially their simplicity. They’re just … holes. That are ‘black.’ This simplicity allows...
In its 4.6 billion-year-long history, Mars has taken its fair share of punches from hurtling asteroids and careening comets. Today,...
For galaxies, as for people, living in a crowd is different from living alone. Recently, astronomers used the National Science...
Using NASA’s Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have discovered three new ultraviolet-bright radio-quiet quasars at high redshift and measured their basic X-ray...
For the second time in only a matter of months, a cable accident has occurred at the Arecibo Observatory in...
Only 12 light years from Earth, Tau Ceti is the closest single star similar to the Sun and an all-time...
For astronomers, astrophysicists, and cosmologists, the ability to spot the first stars that formed in our Universe has always been...
What you’re seeing in this remarkable image from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile is something that’s never been...
Quick flashes of light in the night sky have been linked to the growing mass of satellites and debris zipping...
According to team of scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus got...
Astrophysicists have detected a burst of cosmic radio waves within our galaxy for the first time and identified its source,...
A distant asteroid trailing in the gravitational wake of Mars has been observed in greater detail than ever before, and...
