In a paper published in Science in 1936, Einstein claimed that there was no hope of ever observing the mass of a star directly, but that it could be done...
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Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have shed new light on a problematic structure at the poles of the Milky Way. The huge structure is at the...
Sending a manned mission to Mars needs more than simply building a powerful launch rocket. Scientist are also studying how a three-year space flight would...
A team of theoretical physicists from TU Eindhoven, Utrecht University, the University of Chile, Cedenna, and FOM has suggested a way to simulate black holes...
Astronomer Stephen Kane from the San Francisco State University is scrutinizing planets that exist outside our solar system to answer a question that has been...
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided an international team of astronomers an unparalleled image showing the growth of black holes over billions...
The Crab Nebula, an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that formed in the wake of a supernova explosion, has a curious “kink” phenomenon that has been...
A galaxy that was recently discovered by a group of astronomers led by graduate student Jingzhe Ma from the University of Florida using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray...
Astronomy professor at University of Florida Jian Ge and his postdoctoral student Bo Ma, believe that everything we know about the formation of solar systems...
Astronomers recently announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth sized planet in its habitable zone. The planet is called Proxima b. On the...