A collaborative team has revealed new observational evidence that sheds light on the mystery of massive star formation. Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the ...

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more than 330,000 times that of our Earth, and yet there are stars in the universe ...

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists working at NASA recently made an important and striking discovery that could teach humanity a lot about the evolution of galaxies. According to a new report by NASA's ...

Motivated by the New Horizons mission, we consider how Pluto’s small satellites — currently P5, Nix, P4, and Hydra — grow in debris from the giant impact that forms the Pluto-Charon binary or in solid ...

A new online tool allows users to scroll through geologic time, using their own location as a pinpoint to orient themselves in the shifting land masses. Ancient Earth shows Brooklyn, New York, today ...