Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive…
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray…
For decades, astronomers have speculated that the space between stars may be populated by exosolar…
Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out…
No one knows for certain when Saturn’s iconic rings formed, but a new study co-authored…
Understanding the how our universe came to be what it is today and what will…
Quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity form the bedrock of the current understanding…
For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at…
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze.…
With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program’s first landing of…
