Indian astronomers have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 4631, designated X-8. The new...
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One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research...
How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative...
The nor’easter smacking much of the Northeast with nearly 3 feet of snow in places is as...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations—the low ridges seen here with hollows in...
For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles...
Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key...
For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations...
New observations of Ganymede reveal a striking similarity between the auroras on the largest moon in the...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet...
Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how...
NASA’s new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, putting next month’s planned launch with astronauts in jeopardy.
Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified...
The moon crossed the sun’s path on February 17, causing what is known as an annular solar...
As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how...
Inspired by the simple mechanism of a seesaw—when one side goes up, the other side goes down—researchers...
Space junk returning to Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns...
She had brown eyes and black hair. She was almost 5 feet, 7 inches tall and chewed...
A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the sun toward Earth. Here,...