Expansion of the universe had already been anticipated by theorists. In the early 1920s, Alexander Friedmann and Georges ...
Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...
Now, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has provided a map of magnetic fields in the Sun's corona, the scorching hot realm ...
Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...
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The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...
Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end ...
Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...
Astronomers on Maunakea on Hawai‘i Island have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million ...
"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has around 150 globular clusters that are known to scientists. Since they are extremely old, they ...
Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years.