The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

The scintillation arcs also gave us the velocities of the plasma layers. Far from being as expected, we discovered that one ...

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

Scientists from the Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique in France and from Hawai’i have discovered that it is ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...