Universe
Stanford physicist Peter Graham recently received a Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for his new direction for looking for the most basic laws of nature.
New research shows that not only can gas gather itself into planet-size objects, but those objects then are flung throughout the galaxy in a game of cosmic 'spitball.'
The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth. New research shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy.
Japanese scientists believe Silicon should be added to the list of major elements in the Earth’s core.
One of the burning questions of our time.
Solar energetic particles may cause dielectric breakdown in lunar regolith in a permanently shadowed region (PSR).
The Moon, and the question of how it was formed, has long been a source of fascination and wonder.
Scientists are predicting a change to the night sky that will be visible to the naked eye.
Astronomers have been surprised to see a huge shadow sweeping across a disk of dust and gas encircling a nearby star, and incredibly, it takes 16 years for just one rotation.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the material along the Voyager 1 and 2 probes' trajectories as they move through space.
NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) recently identified two gas-enshrouded supermassive black holes, located at the centers of nearby galaxies.
Atoms manipulated to be 4000 times larger than usual may be the tool dark-matter hunters have been waiting for.
An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving an international team of astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years.
A new study published in the journal, Nature ,has found evidence that snow and ice features previously only seen on Earth, have been spotted on Pluto.
After a disappointing 2016, when most of the annual major meteor showers were washed out by moonlight, 2017 looks far more promising.
A high-altitude weather balloon flight filmed beautiful near-space images while successfully testing tracking systems.
The first-ever localization of these elusive bursts pinpoints a galaxy 3 billion light years away, and perhaps a magnetar.
There is a bizarre illusion that leads you to think you can create chocolate out of nothing. But, might there be any truth in this famous illusion? There might be. Here’s how it goes.
Less than 0.1% of all observed galaxies are Hoag-type galaxies, and the researchers are stumped by how the rings of the galaxy were formed.