Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...

The discovery of planets outside our solar system has reshaped humanity’s understanding of the universe. Since the ...

S. N. Johnson-Roehr Source: Sky & Telescope: The Essential Guide to Astronomy 'König and Binnewies, both amateur astronomers, neatly gather together this well-organized collection of galactic history ...

At the heart of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole, often surrounded by a disk of matter that feeds it. This ...

For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire. By Dennis Overbye Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...

December 18, 2024 • Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.

Now that the evening sky is Moon-free, it’s time to aim for fainter targets, including 12th-magnitude Comet 333P/LINEAR. Located in far northern Cygnus, close to where that constellation’s ...

“Neutron scattering is a well-established tool in analyzing the behavior of spins in magnets,” added Andriy Nevidomskyy, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice who conducted theoretical ...