Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as...
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs)—black holes with masses exceeding a million times that of the sun—are known to prevail in the...
An international research team led by Silke Britzen from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has...
An international scientific team has revealed for the first time the magnetic field transport processes in the accretion flow of...
Last year, Northwestern University researchers reported new observational evidence that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can result from the merger of...
Dark matter is a keystone assumption in the current understanding of the universe. Yet, the elemental identity of dark matter...
Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree...
A research team led by Prof. Wang Junxian and Ph.D. students Kang Jialai from University of Science and Technology of...
Nothing can evoke an existential perspective-spiral quite like looking at an image of a galaxy. At first glance, these sublime...
A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active...
Astronomers have made a thorough forensic study of a star that was torn apart when it ventured too close to...
New research has improved the accuracy of the parameters governing the expansion of the universe. More accurate parameters will help...
