Are magnetic fields an important guiding force for gas accreting to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) like the one that
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Are magnetic fields an important guiding force for gas accreting to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) like the one that
Continue readingQuantum mechanics, though firmly tested, is so weird and anti-intuitive that famed physicist Richard Feynman once remarked, “I think I
Continue readingNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft may have spotted a strange and mysterious structure at the boundary of our solar system and
Continue readingA distant galaxy appears filled with dark matter. The outermost stars in the Cosmic Seagull, a galaxy 11.3 billion light-years
Continue readingIf planets come any hotter than KELT-9b we’re yet to find them. Not only does this roasted ball of gas
Continue readingAstronomers have known that more than 12 billion years ago, about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, the gas
Continue readingFor the first time ever, an international team of astronomers has discovered a galaxy lacking dark matter, the hypothetical and
Continue readingTwelve years ago, astronomers confirmed the detection of the first-known natural object to orbit Earth other than the moon—a tiny asteroid known
Continue readingThe Hubble and Spitzer House telescopes of NASA have produced stunning observations of ultrahot planets that has left physicists perplexed. Ultrahot
Continue readingFor the first time, a stellar eruption called a coronal mass ejection has been spotted fleeing a distant star. Such
Continue readingScientists have found a mammoth 44 planets beyond our solar system in one go using data from the Kepler space
Continue readingGerman astronomers have conducted a study of the central bulge of the Andromeda galaxy and analyzed its stellar populations. The
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