Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

There is no evidence to support the idea that this interstellar object is anything but a comet, but let's double-check.

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...

Astronomers observe Type II supernova SN 2024bch behaving differently, with energy from Bowen fluorescence rather than ejecta interaction, challenging models of stellar death and high-energy neutrino ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

Astronomers have shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected, and whether this ...

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Humanity is intricately linked to the stars. They literally gave us life; we are the dust of these cosmic beasts. But more than that, human civilization has been greatly influenced by the motions and ...

Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is one of four concepts for a flagship-class mission currently being studied for potential inclusion in the 2020 astrophysics decadal survey. Credit: NASA ...

Yet, even in standby mode, NICER’s scientific legacy continues to expand. Mounted on the starboard truss of the ISS, NICER has been one of NASA’s most productive astrophysics instruments in ...