The study, the first large-scale assessment of astronomy learning in India, highlights both enthusiasm for astronomy and deep ...
Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...
Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, space offers a heart-shaped greeting. The star Mira A, about 300 light-years from Earth, ...
Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...
According to general relativity, gravity is the distortion of spacetime. Heavyweight cosmic entities like stars or galaxies ...
“Enceladus, Saturn’s small icy moon, is famous for its water geysers, but its actual impact and interaction with the giant planet has remained partly unknown. This result from Cassini transforms our ...
The second reason is simple: location, location, location! The millisecond pulsar appears to be near Sagittarius A*, the ...
Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...
However, there's another point in fermionic dark matter's favor. The Gaia spacecraft's map of the Milky Way – the most ...
This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...