MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

What better way to start a season about the Earth than by looking back on it from an astronaut’s perspective? At a time when ...

However, there’s a catch. Before electrons can be accelerated by these shock waves, they need to contain a certain amount of ...

What better way to start a season about the Earth than by looking back on it from an astronaut’s perspective? At a time when ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...

Yevgeny Raitses and Elena Belova were named PPPL’s 2024 Distinguished Research Fellows for their exceptional contributions to ...

Our sun is essentially a searing hot sphere of gas. Its mix of primarily hydrogen and helium can reach temperatures between 10,000 and 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit on its surface and its ...