Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky ...
Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these ...
There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...
In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the many planets currently in our night sky. You’ll see four of the five planets visible without optical aid. Venus and Saturn are in the ...
"The large volume of data from Rubin will give us a sample of all kinds of Type Ia supernovas at a range of distances and in ...
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...
An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.
These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...
New research has revealed that Hot Jupiters do not always push away or destroy nearby planets during their migration. This ...
Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.
With the 2012 holiday season coming into its "home stretch," many people may be seriously considering the purchase of a ...