White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.
A world-first discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, ...
When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...
Astronomers from Australia and Serbia have performed multi-band photometric observations of a binary star known as V717 ...
A Caltech astrophysicist and an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts ...
Three Yale alumni - the epidemiologist and harm reduction advocate Nabarun Dasgupta '03 M.P.H.; archaeologist Kristina Douglass '16 Ph.D.; and ...
Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...
Since the fellowship launched in 1981, fellows have included writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers and entrepreneurs. While no institutional affiliation is required, the ...
A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real ...
A network of optical cavities could be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) in an unexplored range of frequencies, according to researchers in the UK. Using technology already within reach, the ...