Image: Hubble captures star-studded cluster
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way's most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars.
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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way's most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars.
Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so many different ways that the data can't talk to each other.
Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating the violent eruptions ...
When engineers think about protective materials, like those used in packaging and support, they usually think about strength, stiffness and durability. But what if those same materials could also sense their external environment?
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black hole tears apart a star, revealing ...
When Dolly the sheep—the first cloned mammal—was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history. Her arrival sparked predictions of a sci-fi future filled with cloned pets, cloned humans and ...
As a child, Enrique Bordallo would gaze in awe at the starry night sky in rural Spain. Next month's solar eclipse has now made his passion a popular obsession.
The galaxy Centaurus A is about 11 million light-years away and is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the sky. Because it's so bright, it's been studied extensively by amateur and professional astronomers alike. Also called NGC ...
Researchers working with data from the South Pole Telescope have released a major catalog of galaxy clusters, giving scientists a powerful new tool for studying how the universe grew and changed over billions of years. The ...
In a reversal Sunday, FIFA announced that it was suspending U.S. striker Florian Balogun's one-game red-card ban, allowing the star player to compete in the U.S.'s World Cup Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday.