So dark matter is our frenemy. We have no clue what it is. It’s kind of annoying. But we desperately need it in our …
Although the night sky often seems so peaceful and still, a closer look reveals constant movement and change. The …
Harry and Sally. Tristan and Isolde. Chip and Dale. Iconic duos, each of them. But they ain’t got nothing on X9.
Most galaxies in the universe have at least one thing in common: supermassive black holes tend to sit in their …
Europe’s Gaia spacecraft has spotted a ‘bridge of stars’ between two dwarf galaxies. The bridge—a halo of …
Between 2009 and 2013, the Kepler space telescope stared at a single patch of the sky, searching for exoplanets. …
Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Arizona State University are developing the most …