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 ...

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

Due to its stellar activity, the galaxy has become a favorite for astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Orbiting ...

The new Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first images, highlighting concentrations of atmospheric nitrogen ...

At the same time, significant reserves of organic material, combined with the subglacial ocean of water, seas of methane and ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

An experimental study conducted by the Laplace laboratory with the University of California, Los Angeles shows how the ...

The enormous computing demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) applications are putting intense pressure on every ...

Scientists have created a new ice form, ice XXI, at room temperature under immense pressure. This breakthrough, achieved ...

( 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 ...

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