Scientific Frontline / Stock image The universe, in its vastness, is largely composed of matter that does not shine. For centuries, the disc...

The chlorine and potassium needed to support planet formation and sustain life come from exploding stars. Image Credit: JAXA "Why are w...

Artist’s interpretation of an ancient total solar eclipse. This illustration is based on artistic imagination and does not represent the exa...

The stars (or rather galaxies) of the show. A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There’s an entire galaxy at the center...

Image Credit: NASA New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove from the assumption that the...

Gamma-ray image of the Milky Way halo (with details). Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning approximate...

The balloon-borne telescope XL-Calibur was launched on a six-day flight from the Swedish Space Corporation’s Esrange Space Center in July 20...

Stars Brewing in Cygnus X Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA The structure of gas and dust resembles a glowing diamond r...

An illustration of the vast and complex field of astrophysics, featuring elements that represent celestial objects and phenomena. Image Cred...

At the current resolution of telescopes, black holes predicted by different theories of gravity still look very similar. Future telescopes w...

Map of the distribution of galaxies observed by the DESI collaboration, from which it is possible to accurately measure the velocities of ga...

AIA Image 193 from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Compiled from 97 still images. Video Credit: Scientific Frontline New research conducted...

Artist's depiction of a coronal mass ejection from EK Draconis. The hotter and faster ejection is shown in blue, while the cooler and sl...

The model suggests a brief “knot-dominated era,” when these tangled energy fields outweighed everything else, a scenario that could be probe...

Impression of the 6.9 minute double white dwarf binary J1539+5027, composed of a tidally heated white dwarf (yellow) and its more compact co...

An artist’s rendering of the spacecraft in the SWIFT constellation stationed in a triangular pyramid formation between the sun and Earth. A ...

A chain of plasmoids is created on the equatorial plane along the current sheet, where the particle density (left part) is higher. Here, mag...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfold...