Last year, Northwestern University researchers reported new observational evidence that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can result from the merger of...
Scientists from The University of New Mexico (UNM), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detected and validated two of...
Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree...
A research team led by Prof. Wang Junxian and Ph.D. students Kang Jialai from University of Science and Technology of...
Nothing can evoke an existential perspective-spiral quite like looking at an image of a galaxy. At first glance, these sublime...
Caroline Herschel, the first professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller...
A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active...
Astronomers have made a thorough forensic study of a star that was torn apart when it ventured too close to...
Caroline Herschel, the first professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But...
New research has improved the accuracy of the parameters governing the expansion of the universe. More accurate parameters will help...
Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all...
