Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made ...

We've talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image exoplanets using ...

Researchers have discovered that our galaxy's outermost spiral arms are wide open and farther away than we thought ...

A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further out into space than was ...

The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Companies whose leadership treats every strategic choice as a moat decision will be the ones that create durable shareholder ...

Asteroid 1997 NC1, a slowly rotating body less than one kilometer across, swept past Earth on June 27 at a distance of ...

Laser distance meters have come a long way over the past few years. They are no longer just simple measuring tools but ...

It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational Lens ...

A long-distance drive can put hundreds or thousands of miles on a vehicle in a matter of days, bringing it closer to routine maintenance and increasing the odds of an unexpected repair far from home.