In 2017, astronomers searching for near-Earth asteroids at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory discovered an object as it hurtled past our sun at 38.3 kilometers per second (23.8 miles per second). Soon, …
A giant explosion occurs in a galaxy close to the Milky Way, dumping the equivalent of about 50 million suns into its surroundings. Astronomers have mapped this galactic pollution event …
Have you ever wondered where we come from? Not just us humans, but the entire solar system? The truth is, we really don’t know. But scientists hope that by understanding …
Dr. Serge Krasnokutski from the Laboratory Astrophysics and Cluster Physics Group of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena used vacuum chambers to study the …