The universe is full of powerful supermassive black holes that create powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of extreme...
York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and...
Wayward asteroids present a real collision hazard to Earth. Scientists estimate that an asteroid measuring several miles across smashed into...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant “relaxed” galaxy cluster to date—the farthest cluster ever spotted that is not being disrupted...
For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the...
In a first for white dwarfs, the burnt-out cores of dead stars, astronomers have discovered that at least one member...
Keith Hawkins, assistant professor of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, has used chemical cartography—also known as chemical...
New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets—worlds that drift through space untethered to...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have found the possible “sibling” of a planet orbiting a distant star....
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Astronomers have found evidence that some stars boast unexpectedly strong surface magnetic fields, a discovery that challenges current models of...
Scientists have devised a new technique for finding and vetting possible radio signals from other civilizations in our galaxy—a major...
