The stellar structures are thought to be created when galaxies collide with hot gas in a process that could be likened to doing a belly flop in a swimming pool.
A novel algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers to discover asteroids in the solar system has proved its mettle.
The emergence of a mysterious area in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field strength is decreasing rapidly, has led to speculation that Earth is heading towards a magnetic polarity reversal.
The fusion furnaces that are the universe’s stars create the elements from helium up to iron.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has calibrated more than 40 'milepost markers' of space and time to help scientists precisely measure the expansion rate of the universe -- a quest with a plot twist.
Two new high-energy gamma-ray Cherenkov telescopes are now observing the skies from the observatory of the Astronomical Institute of the CAS in Ondřejov, Czech Republic.
Traces of Long-Ago Climate Change Could Foretell Earth’s Own Climate Troubles
New research suggests an unseen 'mirror world' of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today
The image reveals a glowing, donut-shaped ring at the Milky Way’s heart.
Rooftop astronomers to provide close-up view of moon entering Earth’s shadow
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, an international collaboration aimed at gathering direct images of black holes, has now set its sights close to home.
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has investigated a meteorite from Mars using neutron and X-ray tomography.
NASA astronauts Michael S. Hopkins (Colonel, U.S. Space Force) and Victor J. Glover, Jr. (Captain, U.S. Navy) will visit UC Santa Cruz in May for a series of events with students, including a public talk.
Professor Falcke will tell about the latest findings of the Event Horizon telescope, as well as the scientific impact of the new images of the black hole.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley have conducted experiments that measured the physical limits for the existence of liquid water in icy extraterrestrial worlds.
The flashing of a nearby star drew the attention of a team of astronomers, who discovered that it is part of a rare and mysterious system.
Scientists once thought that post-starburst galaxies scattered all of their gas and dust — the fuel required for creating new stars
Professor Emilia Kilpua heads a multinational network project in heliophysics, which educates doctoral researchers in the field.
Researchers from the Oden Institute and Jackson School of Geosciences have developed an improved model for planet-wide groundwater flow prediction on Mars that is not only more accurate but, according to its author, more elegant too.
Our astronomers have led on the discovery of a new kind of stellar explosion that could be commonplace in the universe.