While the reasons for the staggering weather are not fully understood, the researchers interpret these winds to be six times ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

The youngest and most metal-rich stars, such as the Sun, are called Population I. Older stars with fewer metals are Population II. The oldest stars, the very first stars to appear in the Universe, are ...

There is no dearth of vastness, secrets and rumours around the universe, that is the disc shaped or torus shaped cosmos.

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, cosmic 'ghost towns,' offer new insights into the early universe and star formation.

New measurements show that the expansion rate of the universe is faster than can be explained by our current understanding of ...

The extreme supersonic winds of WASP-127b are more than 60 times faster than the fastest winds ever observed on Earth ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

As space expanded, everything spread out and cooled. Nowadays, the universe is not only huge but also cold in its average ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...