In the eROSITA all-sky survey, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) have found an interesting repeating...
Understanding how dust grains form in interstellar gas could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop useful...
A Dartmouth professor’s images of the explosive aftermath from the collision of two dying stars could help scientists better understand...
by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),...
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets...
NASA had a banner year in 2022, with many successful missions in what was one of the organization’s most active...
Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars expel their outermost layers as they run out of helium fuel—becoming hot, dense...
An international team of scientists have successfully mapped the magnetic field of our galaxy, the Milky Way, using telescopes that...
The discovery of the faintest known galaxies beyond the neighborhood of the Milky Way could help scientists develop universal models...
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within...
Northwestern University and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) astrophysicists have discovered the tightest ultracool dwarf binary...
By their own admission, Anastasios “Andy” Tzanidakis and James Davenport are interested in unusual stars. The University of Washington astronomers...
