As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.

Physicists at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have used supercomputer simulations to predict a specific ...

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," ...

A tranquil-looking cloud of gas and dust might not sound like much to get excited about, but it's home to one of the most fundamental phenomena in astronomy: star formation. This is the star-forming ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our ...

The vast majority of stars form and reside within galaxies due to the presence of cold, dense molecular gas clouds conducive to star formation. True intergalactic space, characterized by low-density ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...