Scientists unravel the mystery of unusual neutron star system
After more than two decades, an international research team has identified a galactic mystery source of gamma rays: a heavy neutron star with a...
Scientists enlist AI to search for ‘lethal’ baby star eruptions
Young stars – just like young humans – are prone to temper flares.
But star flares can incinerate everything around them, including the atmospheres of...
Stars and planets grow up together as siblings, says study
Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing.
The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large...
Some exoplanets could see Earth from far, far away
Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away.
Now, two astronomers offer another unique...
Scientists find evidence of collision with dwarf galaxy in Milky Way galaxy
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way and was ripped apart by the gravitational forces...
Our Milky Way galaxy has a clumpy halo
The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business.
University of Iowa astronomers have determined our galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot...
Supermassive black holes need the right ingredients to fire stuff into space
Researchers may have figured out why some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others don’t.
Scientists have...
This supergiant red star smaller and closer to Earth than first thought
It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery explosion, according to a new study by an...
Scientists detect a star being ripped apart by supermassive black hole
Astronomers have spotted a rare phenomenon - a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole in a process called "spaghettification".
The event, known...
Fossil carbon burned by asteroid impact may have killed all dinosaurs
An asteroid impact 66 million years ago may have released trillions of pounds of partially burned fossil carbon into Earth’s upper atmosphere as a...