NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...
NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...
Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...
Qian, W. (2025) Expanding Force in Astronomy and Updraft Force in Meteorology. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 267-285. doi: ...
A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...
A tiny star is making big moves — whether its accomplice likes it or not. Astronomers have spotted a star just a fraction the ...
Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...