At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

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While explaining the Interplanetary Dust Particles (IDPs), ISRO said that they are "microscopic shrapnel" from comets and ...

At 10 a. m. on Jan. 1 the high-banked seats of a lecture amphitheatre at Washington University were jammed with a capacity crowd of 300—mostly scholars, a few newshawks, a handful of laymen. In the ...

Some of today's coolest technologies - ranging from DNA analysis to the personal computer and the space shuttle - were built upon foundations laid during the 1980s. The '80s also marked the start of ...