Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics ...

The sheer existence of these behemoths was immediately flagged as impossible—for one, they fell squarely within the ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious cosmic 'heartbeat' repeating every 22 minutes, unlike any known celestial object.

If you approached a neutron star, you would be instantly crushed by gravity and fried by X-rays, while your very atoms would be torn apart by magnetic fields and gravity – making you a splattered ...

The Tampa Bay Rays are going to evaluate everything on their roster this winter in an effort to help get the team back into the postseason. One under-the-radar need for the franchise is adding some ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious emission, known as the Galactic Center Excess, glows in high-energy gamma rays ...

See Usage.md for instructions on how to personalize the repo. We characterize the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) pulsar SXP 46.6 using NuSTAR observations conducted in 2017. The spin period (P) of this ...

Using the joint Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), scientists uncovered a dense but surprisingly slow wind ...