White dwarf explosions may be initiated by uranium in the stellar core detonating like a nuclear weapon.
SpaceX is preparing for a possible launch of its prototype interplanetary Starship rocket from the company's facility in south Texas on Monday afternoon.
The scientists that revealed the very first photograph of a black hole have added polarized light to the image, offering a more detailed look at its...
New tool for cell biology: Würzburg researchers have developed a light sensor with an enzyme function that can be switched on and off with different light...
Astronomers have detected new faint aurora features, characterized by ring-like emissions, which expand rapidly over time. Scientists determined that charged particles...
MIT astronomers have discovered new and unusual galactic neighborhoods that previous studies overlooked. Their results, published today, suggest that roughly 1...
NASA confirms there is no risk of asteroid Apophis impacting Earth for at least 100 years NASA has governed out the likelihood of an asteroid smacking...
Gibson, a solar physicist, was in the first group of scientist-astronauts selected to go into space by NASA, making his only spaceflight as part of the...
Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)....
The remnants of Theia, the planetesimal that created the Moon, may still exist hundreds of miles beneath the surface of the Earth.