For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is being built to map the universe on a scale no previous observatory has attempted, ...
Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.
The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...
Constellation Perseus culminates high upon the north-south meridian around 10 p.m. Dec. 25, with its brightest star Alpha ...
A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to surpass initial predictions, capable of measuring seismic waves across over 300,000 red giant stars.
"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...