Space is home to a great many oddities, and even chemistry gets strange out there. In fact, there are even some molecules ...

The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a little over 150 years. The handy visual reference guide organizes known ...

The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot through its heart. Astronomers using Hubble ...

some mysterious objects have emerged that emit periodic radio pulses at much slower intervals, which is hard to explain with our current understanding of neutron stars. In new research, we have found ...

The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the chemical structure, others from the instability, with a sprinkling ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.

Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass was observed changing its properties with a major X-ray outburst. Between 2022 and 2024, astronomers ...

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes ... appeared to pulse with increasing frequency. Such "quasi-periodic oscillations" have only been observed in a handful ...

Tusay is a graduate researcher at Penn State University and its Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, and teamed up with astronomers across the U.S. to look for narrowband radio transmissions ...

A groundbreaking study by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard and former student Zhiyuan Wang has established the ...

It wasn't until a few days later that the object caught the attention of NASA and other astronomers when it rose on the U.S. Space Agency's Sentry Impact Risk Table. A program under the Center for ...

A group of astronomers have made history by capturing an image of a record number of stars from a time when the universe was half its age. The astronomers detected 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc ...