In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...

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Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

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Mātauranga Māori by Tā Hirini Moko Mead is available to preorder now from all good bookstores and from Huia Publishers’ ...

Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature” is an ode to the physical book, exploring thousands of years of practical knowledge ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

Humanity is fascinated by the mysteries of the universe. Astrophysics is the field of study where astronomers use physics to ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...