Space

By the time a star in Omega Centauri finishes a single loop around its companion, a person born…

Early this year, Elon Musk pulled off the biggest corporate merger ever, folding his artificial intelligence (AI) start-up,…

There are a few key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings…

New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of…

image: In this artist’s concept, the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is shown in the foreground, surrounded by a…

“The images we collected from these observatories showed a weak but clear tail, thus confirming that 1998 SH2…

As the famous lullaby attests, the diamond-like stars above have always been our companions. And with recent astronomical…

For much of the year, the Black Sea appears exactly as its name suggests, a broad, dark body…

Two years ago, a meteorite plummeted through Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into a New Jersey home. Now, analysis…

Astronomers have measured the mix of two forms of carbon in the atmosphere of Beta Pictoris b, a…

Astronomers have found warm cocoons of gas wrapped around newborn stars inside the wreckage of a star that…

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Astronomers have found the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, locked with a star in a 94-year orbit — the longest-period black hole binary yet found