Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda

Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the…

Hydrogen masers reveal new secrets of a massive star

While using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the masers around oddball star MWC…

Scientists find pair of black holes dining together in nearby galaxy merger

While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies scientists have discovered two supermassive black holes growing…

NASA's retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars

Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns…

Galactic shock is shaping Stephan's Quintet in mysterious ways

Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s Quintet are helping astronomers…

Why obesity is more dangerous for men

A newly published study sheds light on the biological underpinnings in sex differences in obesity-related disease,…

Air quality improvements lead to more sulfur fertilizer use

As the atmospheric deposition of sulfur has decreased, the use of sulfur fertilizer in Midwestern U.S.…

Searching for the earliest galaxies in the universe

Astronomers have used data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations and discovered…

NASA's Webb Telescope reveals links between galaxies near and far

A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows that they…

Smallpox has plagued humans since ancient Egyptian times, new evidence confirms

Smallpox was once one of humanity’s most devastating diseases, but its origin is shrouded in mystery.…