The Sun Provides Enough Energy in One Hour to Power the World for a Year Imagine the sun as an enormous, blazing powerhouse ...

One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this ...

A new study suggests that the cosmic web could have formed without relying on inflation driven by a scalar field. Instead, it ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

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

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

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...