Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the sources of radiation events that could impact…
RESEARCH
Dense metallic hydrogen – a phase of hydrogen which behaves like an electrical conductor –…
A new theory about the nature of dark matter helps explain why a pair of…
The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies…
Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The…
A cosmic dance between two merging galaxies, each one containing a supermassive black hole that’s…
A new study finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present…
In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team…
It’s hard to get a good night’s sleep in space. An evaluation of astronauts serving on the…
Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut…
