In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a...
Stars escape from their birth place and eventually become dispersed across the galaxy. This is an important process in galactic...
Using a network of radio telescopes on Earth and in space, astronomers have captured the most detailed view ever of...
The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time...
The universe is more than 13 billion years old and space is often depicted as a vast, empty vacuum. Other...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way...
An international team of astronomers has carried out what is believed to be the largest ever cosmological computer simulation, tracking...
UMass Dartmouth Ph.D. students Tousif Islam (lead author) and Feroz H. Shaik, alongside Assistant Professor Vijay Varma and Associate Professor...
New observations have confirmed a key step in the process of star formation: a rotating “cosmic wind” made of molecules,...
An international team of researchers led by Dutch Ph.D. candidate Mark Snelders (ASTRON and University of Amsterdam) has discovered radio...
Jupiter has some of the most conspicuous atmospheric features in our solar system. The planet’s Great Red Spot, large enough...
An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This ‘fast radio...
