A NASA satellite controlled by Penn State University has detected a brief, super-bright, high-energy flare -- an X-ray n…

New UMD study provides an exciting preview in advance of New Horizons flyby

Much ink has been spilled over Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet. And yet, such discussions have not diminished…

On its own, dust seems fairly unremarkable. However, by observing the clouds of gas and dust within a galaxy, astronomer…

With a grant from NASA, physics professor Philip Lubin will investigate the possibility of using directed energy propulsion for interstellar travel

A laser-powered wafer-thin spacecraft capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in 20 years may sound like the stuff of science…

A team of astronomers has measured the mass and size of a Mars-sized planet orbiting a red dwarf star about 200 light ye…

An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the sear…

Adami’s latest research on black holes and what happens to quantum information will once again dramatically change the w…

An international team of researchers has for the first time predicted the occurrence of aurorae visible to the naked eye on a planet other than Earth.

The result was achieved through numerical simulation and a laboratory experiment, called the Planeterrella, used to simu…

Astronomers have partially solved an epic whodunit: what kills galaxies so that they can no longer produce new stars?

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh have found that levels of metals contai…

Super-sharp observations with the telescope Alma have revealed what seems to be a gigantic flare on the surface of Mira,…

Supernovas just might be the cleaning service of the universe. It seems these explosions that mark the end of

With its thick, hazy atmosphere and surface rivers, mountains, lakes and dunes, Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is one of…

DTU researchers have helped design a telescopic mirror system used to detect an asymmetric supernova explosion which occ…

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have combined high-resolution images from the ALMA telescopes wi…

The team discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy more than 13 billion years in the past and determined its exact dis…

A group of unusual giant black holes may be consuming excessive amounts of matter, according to a new study using

UMD study reveals more about gravitational dance of two black holes becoming one

As two galaxies enter the final stages of merging, scientists have theorized that the galaxies’ supermassive black holes…

The host star of the latest exoplanet, HATS-6, is classed as an M-dwarf, which is one of the most numerous types of star…

Dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, narrowing down the options for what this mysterious…

An X-ray telescope has, for the first time, observed powerful energy-rich winds emitted from black holes, providing new…