Earth might seem ancient, but compared to the age of the universe, it’s surprisingly young. Our planet formed about 4.5 […] ...

XRISM’s observations of GX13+1 revealed a slow, fog-like wind instead of the expected high-speed blast, challenging existing models of radiation-driven outflows. The discovery hints that temperature ...

Astronomers have found a neutron star that spins 716 times per second. This changes things for astronomers. What they thought ...

Scientists now believe highly magnetised neutron stars, or magnetars, are a significant source of gold and other heavy ...

In a single decade, we have gone from the first-ever gravitational wave detection to several hundred of them. Every time ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like gold and platinum sank toward the molten iron core. Geologists estimate that ...

Primordial nucleosynthesis during the early universe generated hydrogen, helium, and minor lithium-7 before the cosmos cooled, halting further fusion. Stellar interiors synthesize elements up to iron ...

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

A physicist with a penchant for the morbid and a writer with a taste for the macabre have looked at the gruesome science ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...