Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion billions of years...
While many studies have compared the magnetic properties of confined and eruptive solar flares, few have considered the thermodynamic properties...
A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way’s greatest secrets: An enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterized a bright quasar, finding it to be...
Stars that pass by our solar system have altered the long-term orbital evolution of planets, including Earth, and, by extension,...
What’s causing mysterious bursts of radio waves from deep space? Astronomers may be a step closer to providing one answer...
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...