A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A—host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star...
The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally...
Astronomers at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins, by using...
Huge black holes are firing powerful beams of particles into space—and then changing their aim to fire at new targets....
Powerful new artificial intelligence models sometimes, quite famously, get things wrong—whether hallucinating false information or memorizing others’ work and offering...
An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger...
Physicists consider black holes one of the most mysterious objects that exist. Ironically, they’re also considered one of the simplest....
Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group...
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have located an exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away...
In images from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, streams of dust thousands of light-years long flow toward the supermassive black...
A recent study led by the research group of Professor Jane Lixin Dai of the Department of Physics at The...
A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)...
