Despite their name, black holes are often surrounded by bright, radiating whirlpools of matter known as accretion...
Science & Astronomy
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no...
Astronomers from Italy and Chile have investigated an accreted stellar stream named Icarus in the Milky Way’s...
Scientists didn’t build the James Webb Space Telescope simply to find answers. They’ve sought new questions and...
Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here’s...
One of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, may not be on the brink of...
Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled...
Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn...
As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn’t be certain that stars beyond...
Astronomers from the European University Cyprus and the University of Hawaii have investigated a recently discovered obscured...
