Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...

Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

Magnetars are neutron stars characterized by some of the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe, as well as their intense X-ray and gamma-ray emissions and outbursts. An international team ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

At the heart of nearly every large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants don’t just sit quietly. Every ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...

After finding the debris of two colliding stars swimming in the ocean, researchers are after more evidence from the lunar ...

Nuclear astrophysics is the study of nuclear-level processes that occur naturally in space. Notably, this includes understanding the chain of fusion events, or nucleosynthesis, that occurs in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made a captivating discovery in the area of planets beyond Earth. A unique planet named 55 ...

When these stars dance, they make their own music. Astronomers have tracked down the source of a mysterious radio signal from ...

A supernova is a cataclysmic stellar death that leaves behind a black hole or neutron star ... These stars are so hot, they're at least double the sun's surface temperature.