The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled a team of Carnegie…
RESEARCH
Understanding the thermonuclear explosion of Type Ia supernovae — powerful and luminous stellar explosions —…
A new study demonstrates for the first time that changes in cognitive performance correlate with…
A research team led by the University of Tsukuba combined observations from ancient cuneiform tablets…
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray…
No one knows for certain when Saturn’s iconic rings formed, but a new study co-authored…
Quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity form the bedrock of the current understanding…
With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program’s first landing of…
It is generally accepted that planetary surfaces were covered with molten silicate, a “magma ocean”,…
There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of…
