UC Berkeley researchers have found fossil evidence that animals from different latitudes of North America and South America mixed long before the Panamanian land bridge permanently linked the two ...

Black holes are often imagined as bottomless pits, swallowing everything that dares to cross their path. But new observations of a dramatic outburst from the black hole system Swift J1727.8−1613 ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over a cosmic paradox: if supermassive black holes blast out powerful jets that heat their surroundings, how do they keep feeding themselves? New images from the ...

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo experimentally demonstrate unique optical behavior from a long-sought aperiodic pattern Credit Institute of Industrial ...

Researchers from Drexel University and Penn State University have developed a new hydrogel and can be used to produce durable ...

Betelgeuse, the blazing red supergiant in Orion, has enchanted skywatchers for centuries. One of the brightest stars visible ...

Using Survey data from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury, the researchers studied star formation near M32.

Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at z=1.2) and had a disc flip (you can see this by comparing the disc orientation at z=1.4 and z=0). This image and Image ...

For years, hotels have been trying to persuade their customers to be a bit greener: reuse your towels, don’t change the linens every day, and switch off the lights. Nevertheless, tourism continues to ...

An artist impression of a red dwarf with a white dwarf binary companion peeking out from behind. The diameters of the two stars are shown to scale. Credit: Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick But ...

A Martian meteorite has unveiled something extraordinary: a previously unknown rock type containing garnet, the first time this mineral has ever been identified on Mars. This discovery is more than a ...

Dark matter has long been considered the scaffolding of galaxy formation, dictating how stars and gas assemble. In the quiet outskirts of the NGC 1052 field, astronomers have uncovered yet another ...