The so-called failed stars, which are difficult to detect and also remain hard to classify, are too massive to be planet…
Read >>New images of deep space are helping to shed light on dark matter, the invisible material that accounts for more than 80…
Read >>The directional information is stored in microscopic grains inside magnetite- a naturally occurring magnetic iron oxide.…
Read >>A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away—a galaxy-in…
Read >>Scientists at the University of Basel were able to identify for the first time a molecule responsible for the absorption…
Read >>Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a super-bright supernova association with a very unusual long la…
Read >>The Subaru Telescope revealed that these dark galaxies contain old stellar populations and shows a spatial distribution…
Read >>Physicists at the University of York have revealed a new understanding of nucleosynthesis in stars, providing insight in…
Read >>Circinus X-1 is a freak of the Milky Way. Located in the plane of the galaxy, Circinus X-1 is the glowing husk of a bina…
Read >>Astronomers have long known that powerful cosmic winds can sometimes blow through galaxies, sweeping out interstellar ma…
Read >>The researchers collected observations ranging from the energetic X-ray and UV all the way to the radio wavelengths, the…
Read >>Astronomers have spotted a super-sized black hole in the early universe that grew much faster than its host galaxy
Read >>The system, named Gaia14aae, is located about 730 light years away in the Draco constellation. It was discovered by
Read >>Astronomers have discovered a disc of planetary debris surrounding a young sun-like star that shares remarkable similari…
Read >>To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, astronomers have developed computer models that examine ho…
Read >>Astronomers are predicting a close encounter between a stellar remnant the size of a city and one of the brightest stars…
Read >>Depicted in an image by Mark Garlick and issued by the University of Warwick, it has been suggested that low-mass exopla…
Read >>Fast-moving magnetic waves emanating from a distant supermassive black hole undulate like a whip whose handle is being s…
Read >>These massive, brilliant, and previously purely theoretical stars were the creators of the first heavy elements in histo…
Read >>The universe can be a very sticky place, but just how sticky is a matter of debate. That is because for decades cosmolog…
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