The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks. Newborn stars “feed” at a...
The amount of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere makes it a habitable planet. Twenty-one percent of the atmosphere consists of...
Using observational data from the U.S. weather satellites GOES, a team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for...
Nurseries for new planets, protostellar disks are oblate swathes of gas and dust that rotate about newly formed stars. The...
The Sun is much more than just a source of light for Earth—it’s a dynamic and complex star, with storms,...
Astronomy is driven by big questions, and they don’t come much bigger than wondering how the first stars and galaxies...
A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy....
Most people are familiar with solids, liquids, and gases as three states of matter. However, a fourth state of matter,...
Is there life in Martian caves? It’s a good question, but it’s not the right question—yet. An international collaboration of...
New details surrounding the dark cloud L1527 and its protostar have been revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The...
The Winchcombe meteorite, a rare carbonaceous meteorite which crashed onto a driveway in Gloucestershire in 2021, has been found to...
It is still a glimpse into the future: Astronauts could be put into artificial hibernation and in this state be...
