A new analysis of X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra and NuSTAR space observatories shows that a pulsar wind nebula created by a neutron star may be...
A research team led by International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) astronomers has studied the molecular-gas content of nearby massive galaxies in...
In a study published in the journal Science Advances, a team of European astronomers shows that water can be delivered to a terrestrial planet in the...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy Messier 64.
A black hole in the Cygnus X-1 binary system is so massive that it challenges current stellar evolution models.
ALESS 073.1, a star-forming galaxy located 12.5 billion light-years away, has all of the features expected of a much more mature galaxy.
Astronomers have detected lithium in the atmospheres of four cool and old white dwarfs, of which one also displayed atmospheric potassium.
About 18,000 years ago, the Magdalenian occupants of Marsoulas Cave in what is now France transformed a shell of the predatory sea snail Charonia lampas into...
Hundreds of silver coins dating to the first century BCE have been unearthed by archaeologists from Pamukkale University.
The primitive-looking coelacanth has long been regarded as a ‘living fossil,’ with extant specimens looking very similar to fossils dating back to the Cretaceous...