New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." ...

Everyone has seen the iridescent rainbow patterns in an oil sheen on water.  Oil is hydrophobic, which repels water and doesn’t mix.  It spreads out across the surface of the water, and if ...

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs): Extremely powerful explosions in distant galaxies that emit vast amounts of energy, mainly as gamma rays. Hypernovae (Massive Star Explosions): Ultra-powerful stellar ...

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...

Recently neutron activation analysis has been used with some success to distinguish between specimens of ancient pottery 1–5 and glass 6. Differences in concentrations of trace elements in ...

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since ...

It's like spray-painting atoms onto a surface' Jack Flaherty won’t return to the Dodgers after winning the World Series, signs $35M deal with another team ...