Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.
There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...
A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...
Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...