An international consortium of scientists studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as part of the POLAR (GRB…
Supermassive black holes weigh millions to billions times more than our sun and lie at…
New research that included astronomers Luca Matra and David J. Wilner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center…
Astronomers have discovered behavior by a jet from a giant black hole that has never…
This huge ball of stars — around 100 billion in total — is an elliptical…
The combination of naltrexone and ketamine can help treat both symptoms of addiction and depression,…
Data captured by ESA’s galaxy-mapping spacecraft Gaia has revealed for the first time how white…
Before the scientific discoveries made using ESO telescopes can find themselves on your screen, they…
Many stars explode as luminous supernovae when, swollen with age, they run out of fuel…
Pulse pattern suggests distant black hole must be spinning at least at 50 percent the…
MicroRNAs, the tiny bits of genetic material that regulate gene expression, play a significant -…
A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June 16, 2018, puzzled…
Researchers have discovered the brightest quasar yet known, detected from the period when the universe’s…
Assistant professor of physics Laura Newburgh is part of a Canadian-led experiment that has detected…
Nuzzled in the chest of the constellation Virgo (the Virgin) lies a beautiful cosmic gem — the…
Galaxy mergers—in which two galaxies join together over billions of years in sometimes-dramatic bursts of…
The vast majority of top-selling drugs are biologics — also known as proteins. Proteins are…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our…