In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...
Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers. It was a big moment in a century-long concerted search for extraterrestrial ...
Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.
The NIAOT in Nanjing was placed on Washington’s entity list in 2023, not long after shipping the finished spectrograph.
Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many ...
A new study has revealed the existence of cosmic tunnels that directly connect the solar system to other stars in the ...
New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Astronomers have completed a stunning massive photomosaic of our closest celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, comprised ...