Astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the distribution of elements needed for life. The jets of matter, expelled by stars deemed 'cosmic ...

Astronomers have taken the next steps toward understanding how our galaxies form and evolve by using a new technique called ...

Carl Sagan once famously said: “We are made of star stuff.” He was referring to the origin of many elements — like the calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood — that are forged in the last ...

A team of astronomers has reconstructed the 12-billion-year evolutionary history of a giant spiral galaxy, marking a major ...

Scientists have used data from the Southwest Research Institute-led Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to explain the presence of energetic heavy elements in galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). GCRs are ...

Scientists have used data from the Southwest Research Institute-led Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to explain the presence of energetic heavy elements in galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). GCRs are ...

EVERYONE knows that ancient alchemists were obsessed with making gold. They never cracked it. Everyone knows that too. But here’s something not a lot of people know: thousands of years later, we still ...

Image showing the positions of all the stars targeted by COSMIC thus far with data recorded into a database of potential signals. We have collected data on over 485,000 sources across the frequency ...

Astronomers have uncovered an ultra-rare star that could reshape our understanding of the early universe. Named PicII‑503, ...