We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close to Earth, and that they've struck Earth before with catastrophic consequences. The recent discovery of asteroid 2024 ...

Qian, W. (2025) Expanding Force in Astronomy and Updraft Force in Meteorology. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 267-285. doi: ...

When neutron stars collide, they create a powerful gravitational-wave signal, with the post-merger remnant ringing like a ...

At 76, Trinh Xuan Thuan, professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, has spent his life unraveling the mysteries of ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...

Mathematical equations have shaped our understanding of the universe, and these nine have played a key role in changing the world.

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of neutron stars using ...

The equations of quantum mechanics are used to describe and predict the structures and properties of molecules. However, until now, few methods were capable of calculating more than a few hundred ...

The study, published in Nature Astronomy and led by Valeria Olivares from the University of Santiago de Chile, examined seven galaxy clusters. At the centres of these clusters lie enormous black ...

I almost concluded it was an actual NEO and stopped looking, but I asked around on the Minor Planet Mailing List just to erase my final doubts" G told Astronomy. It was then that Jonathan McDowell ...

While that federal ban has been in place for decades, John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a member of AAS’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE ...