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The traditional understanding is that the center of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole. The “supermassive” part isn’t a…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and…

While the new moon this Tuesday (Feb. 17) will pass without much fanfare in most of the world, something more exciting will be taking place over a sliver of Antarctica: a “ring of fire” solar eclipse, also known as an annular solar…

For fifteen years, it gave nothing away. Every observation returned the same blank signal, a featureless spectrum that resisted every attempt to read its composition. Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at it, then ground based…

From roots to canopy, many trees can indeed tell if they are being eaten – and by whom. They have evolved extraordinary abilities to discern chewing by beetles and caterpillars, piercing and sucking by bugs, acoustic vibrations from…

This stunning image showcases what astronomers think is the most distant galaxy protocluster ever…

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such a transgenerational link has been…

Astronomers have captured their clearest view yet of a star collapsing and forming a black hole.

The event was discovered in archive data from 2014, captured by a now-defunct NASA asteroid-hunting space telescope.

Using the data, astronomers…