For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...
Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of ...
"Why are we here?" is humanity's most fundamental and persistent question. Tracing the origins of the elements is a direct ...
A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is racing away from the sun. Hubble and JWST track the object's strange composition: high CO2 ...
A flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research. X-ray space ...
For the first time, astronomers have observed ultra-fast winds emerging from a black hole in a distant galaxy, shedding new light on one of the Universe’s most mysterious phenomena. View on euronews ...
A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...
Turns out the deaths of massive stars may be messier than scientists long believed. In A Nutshell What happened: Astronomers ...
This composite image of the Cassiopeia A (or Cas A) supernova remnant, released Jan. 8, 2024, contains X-rays from Chandra ...
The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside ...