A team of astronomers have used a model of earthquakes to understand glitches in...
Deep Space
Academic astronomy and astrophysics
Astronomers continue to hunt for the elusive kind of star known as Population III...
MSL Curiosity is going about its business exploring Mars. The high-tech rover is currently...
Black holes swallow everything—including light—which explains why we can’t see them. But we can...
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Mars has a “dust problem.” The surface of...
Kilonovae are extraordinarily rare. Astronomers think there are only about 10 of them in...
The differences between Earth and Venus are obvious to us. One is radiant with...
From the time of its writing in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemy’s Almagest...
The universe was simply different when it was younger. Recently astronomers have discovered that...
The European Space Agency successfully tested a solar-sail-type device to speed up the deorbit...
