The Universe has long been cast as effectively immortal, coasting into a cold, dark eternity so distant that it might as well ...

For centuries, the Ring Nebula has captivated astronomers with its stunning, glowing appearance, but a recent discovery has ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

Astronomers are using China's powerful FAST radio telescope to chase after 100 intriguing signals detected by the SETI@home ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as ...

A research team including a UC Riverside astrophysicist and his former graduate student has received the 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for a study that offers new insight into one of the universe’s ...

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionised iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula ...

Aman Priyadarshi Kumar, New Mexico State University astronomy Ph.D. student, didn’t start his graduate studies with solar ...

Physicists have revealed a quantum state once thought impossible, where topology emerges even without particle-like electrons ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...