Scientists search for "decaying" dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines ...

On Earth, the Sun often appears yellow or even orange and red, particularly at sunrise and sunset. This visual shift occurs ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Pulsars emit a lot of radiation, in particular high-energy gamma-rays and radio waves pulses. That light is invisible to JWST ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Two studies published in 2025 pushed back on the claims that the Dutch painter’s famous work accurately depicted a ...

With no clear explanation, anxiety is still festering in Providence and Brookline, two communities that up until now had ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

The most extreme fireworks in the universe are supposed to follow rules. Gamma-ray bursts, the brightest explosions known, ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in collaboration with Huzhou University, discover that ...