Magnetar flares produce gold, platinum, and other heavy elements in our galaxy, says new research on a strange cosmic flash ...

The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says. NASA/Earth Observatory A blast from the past will be hitting Earth next week, as a ...

What's more, no exoplanets with emission spectra cooler than 275 K (1.85 °C; 35.33 °F) - comparable to Earth - have been ...

The possibility of Planet Nine being out there way beyond Pluto has always excited astronomers. They have now found one body ...

There's disappointment for astronomers as the newly-discovered bright green comet appears to have disintegrated ...

"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and ...

The research team experimented with using two LLMs to power AstroAgents — Claude Sonnet 3.5and Gemini 2.0 Flash. They fed ...

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.

The Pentagon faces a critical moment as leadership turmoil, security leaks, and vacancies threaten its readiness amid global ...

NASA has launched a new project that lets everyday people team up with scientists to explore space. The goal is simple: help ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study exoplanets and the opportunity to refresh one’s perspectives.