Scientists detect rapid changes in a black hole that may explain gamma-ray bursts Some of the most massive and distant black holes in the universe emit an enormous amount of extraordinarily energetic radiation called gamma […]
Rare-metal abundance points to a missing companion star for the supernova Cassiopeia A The massive star that exploded to form the supernova known as Cassiopeia A most likely had a companion star that has yet […]
Scientific ‘red flag’ reveals new clues about our galaxy Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way—a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances—could yield new clues […]
This Is How Many People You’d Need to Colonize Mars, According to Science So you want to colonize Mars, huh? Well Mars is a long ways away, and in order for a colony to function […]
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of two strongly interacting exoplanets Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the ground […]
Discovery of a luminous galaxy reionizing the local intergalactic medium 13 billion years ago Astronomers have discovered a luminous galaxy caught in the act of reionizing its surrounding gas only 800 million years after the […]