For the first time in Brazil, researchers have identified a field of tektites. These are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of extraterrestrial bodies against Earth's surface. These ...

With a new mathematical model, a team of biophysicists has revealed fresh insights into how biological tissues are shaped by ...

Scientists have dived deeper into the "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes than ever before. This unprecedented investigation of the turbulent and violent c ...

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Planetary remote-sensing instruments are often required to cover a relatively large field of view, ideally with a uniform angular resolution over the field, due to relatively large apparent sizes of ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Nobody has any idea of the origin of the comet. It is a glimpse of a rifle bullet a hundredth part of a second. You can never cast that back with any accuracy to determine when it began on its journey ...

Confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics ...

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence for a supermassive black hole.

At around 210000 km/h, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was not just going through the inner Solar System, it squeezed the whole scientific procedure into tight observing strikes in which structure could ...

Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...