Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never stops — even at absolute zero.
Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...
About 3 billion years ago, the star was pulled into the gravitational confrontation of two giant black holes — and now ...
A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...
Minister for Environment and Climate Change Mosese Bulitavu says Pacific Island nations are confronting increasingly severe ...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...
From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...
An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...
Astronomers imaged two novae only days after eruption. They used the CHARA Array in California for clarity. The system captured expanding material around each erupting star.
Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers the oldest supernova ever seen, offering insights into early universe star formation ...
Two modern X-ray telescopes have captured an unprecedented explosion of a supermassive black hole located about 130 million ...