Chinese researchers have developed a laser-based imaging system that can read tiny text and little details in high resolution ...

Witness the beauty and science behind Earth's rarest light shows. Join us as we delve into transient luminous events and uncover the secrets they hold about our atmosphere's hidden dynamics ...

Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers saw the distant galactic ...

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

China recently launched the Zhuque-2E rocket, deploying 6 satellites into low-Earth orbit and dumping experimental fuel into ...

But as those first luminous objects shined, their intense emissions of ultraviolet and x-ray radiation heated up the gas and broke the hydrogen atoms back into constituent electrons and protons.

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

The event occurred around midnight, with witnesses describing a fast-moving, luminous object leaving a fiery trail as it streaked toward the horizon. Videos shared online show the object glowing ...

It is more than a luminous object; it has become a work of art even without intention.” Maurer said “another,” because he had already created one such surrealistic fixture three years ...

which is extremely luminous in the X-ray band. Results of the new study are reported in a research paper published April 18 on the arXiv preprint server. Quasars, or quasi-stellar objects (QSOs ...

Stars form when a contracting object's core is massive enough to stoke nuclear fusion and become an energy-producing, luminous star. Brown dwarfs are too small to create this fusion, and become ...