For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...
Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...
Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...
New research led by W. M. Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer Grant Hill has confirmed what scientists have long suspected—WR 104 comprises two massive stars: a Wolf-Rayet star and an ...
New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.
The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...
The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death” ...
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...
Star Trek: Voyager turns 30 in 2025, immediately making half of our lower backs twinge. But this milestone is more than just ...
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a free pi day pie potluck, comedy against cancer, Mobius performance art called “Slay,” Ukrainian folk-rock, a St. Patrick’s fun ...