The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

New data suggests the traditional assumptions behind hail stow modelling may be underestimating the likelihood of damage to a ...

( Nanowerk News) The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for ...

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

A new study reveals that Mars’ dust devils race across the planet at speeds up to 160 km/h, far exceeding earlier estimates.

A new photo of a huge plume of smoke billowing from the depot in Feodosia has been verified. The image was taken this morning ...

His willingness to bring scientific rigor to Sasquatch studies earned him the gratitude of enthusiasts and the withering ...