The Subaru Telescope has spotted the terminal ends of dark matter filaments in the Coma cluster stretching across millions of...
Ordinarily, planets in evolved planetary systems, such as the solar system, follow stable orbits around their central star. However, many...
The most powerful events in the known universe—gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)—are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with...
Hidden beneath the heavily cratered surface of Mimas, one of Saturn’s smallest moons lies a secret: a global ocean of...
Employing massive data sets collected through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a research team led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick...
In research that could jumpstart work toward the quantum internet, researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge have built...
Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of...
The study of “exoplanets,” the sci-fi-sounding name for all planets in the cosmos beyond our own solar system, is a...
Surrounded by the desert mountains and clear blue sky of northern Chile, astronomers from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory hope...
A team of researchers has examined the Winchcombe meteorite and demonstrated the existence in it of nitrogen compounds such as...
Mason Leist is working remotely—127 million light-years from Earth—on images of a supermassive black hole in his office at the...
A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation...
