Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot ...
Gravitational wave astronomy is starting to do more than confirm Einstein’s equations. It is turning into a precision tool ...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, known for its massive size, strong gravity, powerful storms and many moons ...
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...
A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole ...
The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
Caltech astronomer Mansi Kasliwal and her colleagues were not expecting to chase a mystery that blurred the line between a ...
Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre lemon-shaped exoplanet with extreme heat and a carbon-rich atmosphere, leaving experts unsure how it even formed.
A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it ...