Using AI, historians trace how astronomical ideas spread in the 16th century
Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the […]
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A distant quasar’s black hole is surprisingly large for its galaxy
The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical
The spiky filaments of a zombie star shed light on a 12th-century supernova
About 7,500 light years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tentacles of hot sulfur. No one knows
A cosmic census triples the known number of black holes in dwarf galaxies
A colossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known to inhabit miniature
Uranus may have looked strange when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by
Some of the apparent quirks of Uranus may be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew
A first look at the rocks from the far side of the moon creates a volcanic mystery
The first samples from the far side of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south
Mars’ potato-shaped moons may be the remains of a shattered asteroid
The moons of Mars may be the remnants of an asteroid with a rogue star that came too close to
What would it take to protect the world from an asteroid?
How to kill an asteroidRobin George AndrewsWW Norton & Co., $29.99 The dinosaurs met a gruesome death at the hands
A pair of spacecraft will fly in formation to create artificial solar eclipses
A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit. The European Space Agency’s mission,
Astronomers see the astrosphere of a sun-like star for the first time
BOSTON – For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of an astrosphere around a sun-like star. This bubble