Science

XMM-Newton reveals giant flare from a tiny star

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Solar eruption larger than Earth.

How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets

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ALMA and the VLA observed more than 300 protostars and their young protoplanetary disks in Orion. This image shows a subset of stars,...

Planet with 18-Hour Year Is on the Edge of Destruction

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Planet with 18-Hour Year Is on the Edge of Destruction

ALPHA collaboration at CERN reports first measurements of certain quantum effects in antimatter

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ALPHA collaboration at CERN reports first measurements of certain quantum effects in antimatter...

Findings From NASA's Juno Update Jupiter Water Mystery

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The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter's southern equatorial region on Sept. 1,...

The TESS Mission’s First Earth-Like Planet Found in an Interesting Trio

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Artist's illustration of what the exoplanet TOI 700 d might look like.

How to deflect an asteroid

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MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful...

ALMA Explores Possible Interacting Twin Disks

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Artist’s impression of one of the two stars in the FU Orionis binary system, surrounded by an accreting disk of...