New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a stellar explosion from a time when the cosmos was still in its infancy, catching the light of a supernova that detonated less than a billion years after ...
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Capping 2025 and welcoming 2026, I ask my readers to bear with my being starstruck in the last two columns. I started a star trek of sorts this year, writing as a scientist, hoping to encourage ...
We celebrate the incredible achievements of all those pioneering scientists, straight-talking campaigners and brilliant ...
For decades, astronomers treated starlight and dust as a simple conveyor belt, a steady wind that carried the raw ingredients ...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...
That’s exactly what awaits at Ochlockonee River State Park, a 543-acre haven tucked away in the charming town of Sopchoppy.
What can one expect from 3D printing an 8″ Newtonian telescope? [Molly Wakeling] shares her thoughts after doing exactly that ...
As each year winds to a close, The Inquirer and Mirror takes a look back on a month-by-month basis at the highs and lows, the joy and heartbreak, that made ...
Learn more about IRAS 23077+6707, a protoplanetary disk, nicknamed Dracuala's Chivito, that may serve as a planet nursery and ...