Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

In Earth's early days ...

Children’s books usually show a moon rising at night, but the moon rises in the sky at night only half of the time. The rest ...

and it's still spinning faster. While Earth is, on average, pretty reliable and takes 86,400 seconds to rotate around its axis, this is not perfect. ”When highly accurate atomic clocks were ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe Oct. 30, 2024 — New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

These Giants’ and Jets’ seasons are as much a bottoming-out as anything that has happened for either team since the Giants ...

Experts from University College London say that the mysteries surrounding Uranus may have been the result of a powerful solar ...