Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a…
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space…
Sometime around 400 million years after the birth of our universe, the first stars began…
What do Mars and Iceland have in common? These days, not so much. But more…
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around…
Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano group, that is, a carbon atom…
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu’s surface in 2020, forces measured during…
Finding forming planets is a tough but important job for astronomers: Only three planets have…
The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that…
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a new multiplanet system within our galactic neighborhood…
