Just like we use photos to reflect on memories of our past, astrophysicists want to use images...
Science & Astronomy
The elliptical galaxy NGC 1270 lies about 240 million light-years away. But it’s not alone. It’s part...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed a decades-old galaxy model, originally proposed...
During May 2024, a series of eruption events on the sun saw the largest geomagnetic storm hit...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering have developed a new...
Controlled chaos is a key part of forming massive stars. An international team of astronomers has observed...
At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano...
Humanity has marveled at the vivid star Betelgeuse for many millennia. Over two thousand years ago, this...
Despite their name, black holes are often surrounded by bright, radiating whirlpools of matter known as accretion...
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no...