Over the summer of 2015, 40 million mangroves died of thirst. This vast die-off—the world’s largest ever recorded—killed off rich...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the universe with spectacular, unprecedented clarity. The observatory’s ultrasharp infrared vision has cut...
Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a...
Using the Very Large Telescope and the radio telescope ALMA in Chile, a team of astronomers including researchers from the...
While developing and testing astronomical software on existing data, a master’s student in astronomy fortuitously discovered a group of galaxies...
Astronomers agree that planets are born in protoplanetary disks—rings of dust and gas that surround young, newborn stars. While hundreds...
While astronomers have seen the debris from scores of exploded stars in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, it is...
The wall of dense gas and dust resembles a massive winged creature, its glowing maw lit by a bright star...
Astronomy has a blind spot in the area of far-infrared radiation compared to most other wavelengths. A far-infrared space telescope...
With the help of detailed observations, astronomers have managed to get a first representative glimpse of the numerous young stars...
A new simulation conducted on the world’s most powerful supercomputer dedicated to astronomy has produced a testable scenario to explain...
Nature likes spirals—from the whirlpool of a hurricane, to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of...
