Space

When a star goes supernova, it shines brightly for a few weeks or months before fading away. Yet the material blasted outward from the explosion glows hundreds or thousands of years later, leaving a…

Recently, a gamma-ray burst occurred with an optical flash that peaked at magnitude 7 on the astronomical brightness scale, easily visible through binoculars. It is the second-brightest flash…

Astronomers from around the world have used data from satellites and observatories to explain the brightest Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) ever recorded. An unusually bright GRB, now deemed GRB 130427A, was…

Neutrinos can pass right through your body, the walls of your house, entire planets, even emerging from near the surface of fascinating and frightening black holes.  And now, an international…

When Neil Armstrong took his first step for all mankind in 1969, researchers obviously had no idea how much of a nuisance the lunar soil beneath his feet would be. The scratchy dust clung to…

Astronomers have found strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. Jets of high-energy…

A research team has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust. Lead author Munir Humayun, a Florida State University scientist, and colleagues analyzed  a 4.4…

Messier 15 is a gathering of  100,000 very old stars that orbits the center of the Milky Way. It is one of the densest globular clusters known, with most of its mass concentrated at its core.…

An international team say they know what is inside the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes. Jets are narrow beams of matter spat out at high speed from near a central object, like a black hole.…

You might be surprised to know that there are quite a few places we might be able to go to find present day life or evidence of the evolution of life. It would be easy to miss it, because we have…