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 indirectly. Now, slightly more than 100...
Space
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...
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have discovered a huge black hole that tore apart a nearby star and continued to feed off its remains for nearly...
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...
A group of astronomers led by University of Florida graduate student Jingzhe Ma recently discovered a galaxy that is undergoing an unusual explosion of stellar...
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided an international team of astronomers an unparalleled image showing the growth of black holes over billions...
Scientists at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the University of Minnesota Duluth have found a Hoag-type galaxy approximately 359 million...
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...