A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—is most likely...
Ever since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured its first glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have been surprised...
In our most basic understanding of our solar system, planets are drawn into the orbit of our massive star, the...
Two astrophysicists from the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have finally solved a...
The Subaru Telescope has spotted the terminal ends of dark matter filaments in the Coma cluster stretching across millions of...
Cosmic dust—like dust on Earth—comprises groupings of molecules that have condensed and stuck together in a grain. But the exact...
When spectacular cosmic events such as galaxy collisions occur, it sets off a reaction to form new stars, and possibly...
Scientists working with the powerful telescopes at Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have completed a...
Ordinarily, planets in evolved planetary systems, such as the solar system, follow stable orbits around their central star. However, many...
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime...
The most powerful events in the known universe—gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)—are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with...
Astronomers have detected an extreme eruption from a young star that became more than a hundred times brighter in only...
