The planet’s auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why...
All through history, humans have created and shared stories that ponder the creation of stars—what they are and how the...
A joint research team has found the formation of magnetic islands with the twisted structure in the current sheet during...
New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and...
An international team of astronomers led by Dutch scientists has discovered that even a weak jet stream from a low-active...
Can you crumple up two sheets of paper the exact same way? Probably not—the very flexibility that lets flexible structures...
Black holes aren’t always in the dark. Astronomers have spotted intense light shows shining from just outside the event horizon...
Astronomers from Georgia State University have found an explanation for the strange occurrence of massive stars located far from their...
In the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. Some of these are actively feeding on the gas...
With new algorithms and supercomputers, an incredibly detailed radio map of the universe has been created. Now astronomers can look...
An international team, including several researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, has mapped the active...
Space travel is all about momentum. Rockets turn their fuel into momentum that carries people, satellites and science itself forward...
