How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team ...

Dark matter, if it exists, is probably in the latter category. If hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are real, their collisions with regular matter may have left fossil traces ...

Please describe your role at RIKEN. As a principal investigator, I manage the Astrophysical Big Bang Lab. I also pursue my scientific goals as well as support lab members in realizing their research ...

In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is weighing in on a longstanding debate over why we don’t see more of the most massive red supergiant stars go supernova. NASA/ESA/CSA/Northrop Grumman In recent years, ...

Scientists working with material collected from asteroid Bennu have found a sticky, gum-like organic substance never before observed in any meteorite or space sample, alongside an unexpectedly large ...