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Older stars, like the sun, can still send out massive bursts of energy that can be seen from light-years away.
The universe may be full of binary stars that have been exiled from their home galaxies, thanks to one star's rowdy behavior.
The largest group of newborn stars in our Local Group of galaxies, cluster R136, contains the most massive stars we've ever discovered: over 250 times the ...
The atrium of the Steele Ocean Sciences Building was packed with families last Saturday as the Atlantic Science Links Association (ASLA) recognized the ...
There's a binary star system out there in the Milky Way, and it's acting very weird. "AG Draconis," as astronomers call it, is made up of two stars: a relatively cool ...
A survey of 300 stars in search of exoplanets finds that massive, Jupiter-like gas giants are found just about where Jupiter is in our own solar system.
Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm don't ...
As human ancestors went from swinging through trees to walking on two legs, they may have received a boost from an unlikely source: ancient supernovas.
There are spinning stars in space. Some of them collapse into black holes. Along the way, they may generate a lot of heavy elements — including gold.
Images of the Starlink constellation in orbit have rattled astronomers around the world.
The Subaru Telescope has captured images of more than 1800 exploding stars in the Universe, some located 8 billion light years from Earth.
A viral video from the Netherlands shows how satellite constellations may end up ruining the night sky. Also, a young German meteorologist's unusual plans for ...
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers discovered an exoplanet orbiting one of ...
In its final year, Cassini plunged where no spacecraft had plunged before, down in the space between Saturn and its rings. Again and again it dove, for a total of ...
The origins of the Solar System's heavy elements such as gold and platinum have been a source of great interest to astronomers. One of the most popular ...
At the University of Delaware's Science, Technology and Advanced Research Campus — STAR Campus — top academics and research are combined with ...
Astronomers have announced a global contest to rename dozens of extrasolar planets. The nominees are pouring in.
You know how stars do. They're out there, doing their thing, fusing a whole bunch of hydrogen into helium, shining up the joint.
The night sky is already dotted with shiny satellites and other artificial lights. One day, maybe that's all there will be.
Death, for stars, isn't always a straightforward affair. In fact, it can get downright weird. Astronomers have just identified a star made from the remnants of two ...
Astronomers think they've identified a galaxy that hit the Milky Way and ruffled its edges millions of years ago.
Quasars usually signify the end of a galaxy's star formation, but new research suggests some, if not all, galaxies may continue to build new stars for a few million ...
“Have you seen your body in X-rays? It looks completely different,” says Rashid Sunyaev. “We will do the same with the Universe.” Sunyaev, an eminent ...
We know what they look like once they're dead," said astrophysicist Allison Kirkpatrick. "But the rest of it is just pieces that we've guessed at.”
And a hundred more small worlds may be awaiting discovery, astronomers predict, thanks to a new method for combing through NASA data.
Where is complex alien life hanging out in the universe? Likely not on planets stewing in toxic gases, according to a new study that dramatically reduces the ...
The mature sun may still be prone to temper tantrums. A new study suggests that older stars like the sun can produce superflares: huge bursts of energy visible ...
Astronomer Vera Rubin changed the way we think of the universe by showing that galaxies are mostly dark matter. On a dry and clear night at the Kitt Peak ...
A panel of experts discussed the missions currently studying the solar system and beyond during 'Eyes in the Skies' at the 2019 World Science Festival.
Once 8th graders learned how food advertisements have been developed to influence them, many rebelled — and started eating healthier.
The next full Moon will be on Monday morning, June 17.
Summer is here. This year, for me, the warm months are about finding time, regaining mindfulness, returning to what really matters. I want to spend my weeks ...
The history of science has often seen women's work overlooked and their credit stolen.
A star system located some 16000 light-years away from Earth is flaring in an unexpected manner, and scientists are working to explain what's going on with it.
The crescent-shaped dune was found on Mars' southeast Hellas Planitia area.
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved in a ...
Older stars, like the sun, can still send out massive bursts of energy that can be seen from light-years away. 12 hours ago. Astronomy · Subscriber Services.
Astronomers, for the first time, have snapped an image of a cool, gassy ring swirling around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This ring is ...
Plus, a world-famous musician plays a concert under the stars, and a SpaceX launch lights up the Florida night sky.
Thompson plays a successful TV host who pulled the ladder up behind her in the movie Late Night. Kaling says a female late night host is "science fiction," but ...
Deforestation in Brazil increased sharply in May, with 740 square kilometers of land newly cleared, according to the Real-time Deforestation Detection System ...
HUNTINGTON - Madison Smith's love of science was developed through numerous hands-on field trips she took while in school in Charleston."Especially with ...
In 2016 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a distant star called TRAPPIST-1 for 500 hours. Around the star, using the telescope's unique infrared ...
OAKLAND, Calif. — For six games, Fred VanVleet was tasked with the most difficult defensive assignment of his life: Attach himself to one of the N.B.A.'s greatest ...
Vulture revisits its power ranking of Disney and Nickelodeon stars who have graduated from children's TV to varying shades of pop stardom.
For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the universe's most luminous explosions. A new ...
Star formation within interstellar clouds of gas and dust, so-called molecular clouds, proceeds very rapidly yet highly 'inefficiently'. Most of the gas is dispersed ...
As NASA opens up the International Space Station to private astronauts, the romance of space will be within reach for those who can afford it.
There really is a cosmic conundrum about how fast the Universe is expanding. Changing its age won't help.
From historical nonfiction to graphic novels to poetry, we've got plenty of recommendations for science books.
"The Big Bang Theory" stars Kevin Sussman and Simon Helberg say acting on the just-ended show didn't exactly turn them into science geeks. (May 17)
Dava Sobell talks to Paul Barclay about the women 'computers' of the Harvard College observatory who helped expand our understanding of the stars and the ...
As rain deluged the Midwest this spring, commercial fisherman Ryan Bradley knew it was only a matter of time before the disaster reached him.
Nearly 100 countries have already signed up to organize national campaigns, to provide the public with an opportunity to vote. The deadline is July 30 to ...
If we restrict ourselves to looking for extraterrestrial life on Earth-like worlds, we might miss it entirely.
Around every thousand years, our Sun emits powerful bursts of radiation that will cause blackouts, electrical failures and communication breakdowns worldwide.
Watch our video chat with Jared Harris ('Chernobyl') on HBO limited series and read the complete interview transcript.
NASA'S Chandra space telescope snapped an incredible photograph of two rogue stars ejected from their own galaxies like a “rowdy guest” being told to leave ...
Astronomers changed Pluto's status from planet to dwarf planet in 2006, in light of discoveries. Today, some scientists disagree with the decision.
Physicists are studying gravitational waves from neutron stars for clues about quarks, "quark matter," and their role in the universe's evolution.
AS THE SUN slipped into the Mediterranean on June 3rd, imams in Gaza took to their minarets to announce the end of Ramadan. Observers in Saudi Arabia ...
Antlia 2, the "ghost of a galaxy" orbiting the Milky Way, is a dark horse in more ways than one. Not only is it so faint it was only just discovered last year, it may ...
Happy Father's Day!! "Father's Day is observed annually on the third Sunday in June. This day is set aside to honor the role that fathers play in the family ...
Scientists have discovered about 1800 new supernovae, or exploding stars, that may help measure how fast the universe is expanding.
The hunt for nearby exoplanets has just heated up considerably. A new instrument designed to find potentially habitable alien worlds in Alpha Centauri, the ...
The sun could wipe out humanity within the next 100 years when it unleashes a huge “superflare”.
It's not a bad movie, but it's not a good one either: 'Late Night' is stale, though Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson give it their all.
When uBiome was founded in 2012, the world was a different place. Silicon Valley was regarded with more reverence than suspicion, and DNA testing company ...
See what the 'Ghostbusters' cast — including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver — have been up to since the first 'Ghostbusters' movie hit ...
In the Showtime drama, the actor plays an assistant district attorney who teams up with a corrupt (and racist) FBI veteran in 1990s Boston. "We play the honesty ...
The summer has yet to warm up for Hollywood at the box office.
Incense burners recently unearthed in western China provide new evidence of marijuana's ritual role, once known only from historic texts.
In a glimpse of what may be in store for our own solar system, astronomers have discovered what appear to be the shattered remains of a planet orbiting a white ...
There's a point in space that's 50,000 times as bright as our sun — the signature of a massive star. Scientists already knew about it and named it PDS 27.
STAMFORD — Students collected crabs species from the inlet near Holly Pond at Cove Island Park on Tuesday in Stamford as part of Science Stars, a STEM ...
Has the mystery really been solved? Doubtful. The real science goes much deeper.
One billion years ago, a cluster of stars formed in our galaxy. Since then, that cluster has whipped four long circles around the edge of the Milky Way. In that time ...
Two astronomers think they've pinpointed the ancient stellar collision that gave our solar system its cache of precious gold and platinum — some of it, anyway.
Since the dawn of humanity, people have looked to the sky and marveled at the glittering lights above. With the advent of modern telescopes, scientists came to ...
Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver.
Who will take home this year's Ig Nobels, the world's most unusual science prizes?
Brown dwarfs fill the 'gap' between stars and the much smaller planets. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers may now be able to ...
Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialized on cosmic gamma rays, scientists have measured the smallest apparent size of a star on the night sky to ...
A group of 12 red giants seem to be passing gas way faster than they should be. New research suggests it's all an illusion — and secret binary stars are to ...
For the first time scientists have been able to prove a decades old theory on stars thanks to a revolutionary high-speed camera.
Two stars are locked in a fight to the death a mere 650 light-years from Earth. A new camera system on the Very Large Telescope zoomed in on the action.
At first, it looks like a planet: dark, snow-speckled and slashed down the center by a deep red scar. But zoom in a little closer, and you realize you're looking at ...
Date: April 15, 2019; Source: University of Delaware; Summary: We gaze up at them, we wish upon them, we even sing about swinging on them. But the one ...
From artificial intelligence to infectious diseases, top researchers in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are making big impacts on the ...
In a process not unlike human aging, most stars entering the final chapter of their lives tend to shrink, shrivel and slowly turn white. Astronomers call these cold, ...
Have you ever seen a shooting star? No, not a micrometeorite flaring to a crisp in Earth's atmosphere — an actual star, careening out of its orbit at millions of ...
When a pair of ultradense cores of dead stars smashed into one another, the collision shot a bright jet of charged subatomic particles through space.
When you gaze up into the night sky, there are thousands of stars you can see without any help from a telescope. That might sound like a lot. But those stars are ...
A monthlong visit to observatories in Chile, Hawaii and Los Angeles revealed spellbinding visions of the heavens.
Xconomy Boston —. [Updated 11:30 a.m. 5/16. See below.] Success in life sciences is always a team effort. Often, those doing the heavy lifting do so behind the ...
Astronomers peered into the dusky bulge of the Milky Way and found some of the oldest known stars in the universe. In a study to be published in the April 2019 ...
Two recent Hubble Space Telescope photographs offer stunning looks at huge numbers of stars.
Astronomers have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and ...
Red giants are old stars that eject gaseous material and solid particles through a stellar wind. Some red giants appear to lose an exceptionally large amount of ...
Did an ancient supernova kill the Earth's biggest sharks? A new astrobiology study says such a theory may not be as unlikely as it sounds.