A spinning black hole just revealed its inner chaos, XRISM’s image goes deeper than any X-ray telescope before it.

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

New XRISM X-ray observations reveal details of gas near a supermassive black hole in galaxy MCG–6-30-15, helping scientists better measure black hole spin and behavior ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ...

If I ever had any virtues, patience was never one of them. As is the case with most miracles of nature, it’s a quality that ...

For the framers of this usage of the term, ‘Zionism’ becomes the glue-word connecting everything: the U.S., Israel, sanctions ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

The long, quiet search for radio whispers from Comet 3I/ATLAS has finally paid off, and the result is as dramatic as the hype ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

It also pushed them to tighten their standards, especially when the conversation shifts from “interesting chemistry” to ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...