Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the reason for the dimming of a red hypergiant star called VY Canis Majoris.
Recent measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe have plunged the standard model of cosmology, the ΛCDM model, into a crisis.
Radiolytic products provide the dominant fuel for microbial activity in marine sediment older than a few million years, according to a new study.
Pharohylaeus lactiferous, a species of Australian endemic bee in the genus Pharohylaeus, had not been seen on the continent since 1923.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2336.
A new analysis of X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra and NuSTAR space observatories shows that a pulsar wind nebula created by a neutron star may be...
A research team led by International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) astronomers has studied the molecular-gas content of nearby massive galaxies in...
In a study published in the journal Science Advances, a team of European astronomers shows that water can be delivered to a terrestrial planet in the...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy Messier 64.
A black hole in the Cygnus X-1 binary system is so massive that it challenges current stellar evolution models.