A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes.

A team of astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope has detected a faint but tantalizing signal from the center of the Milky Way: a possible millisecond pulsar spinning once every 8.19 milliseconds, ...

When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps.

More than a billion people worldwide struggle to find relief from the unbearable pain of migraine. But research is leading to ...

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously ...

Biographies provide intimate glimpses into lives both famous and obscure, reminding us that truth is indeed often stranger than fiction. Science books explain the wonders of our universe in accessible ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

The first word is “appliance.” If you change the “Ian” to “Esau” you get “applesauce.” Joan Suits of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The moon is chock-full of Earth’s history. Elements from our planet’s atmosphere have made their way into moon dust, also called regolith, on a pathway created by the Earth’s magnetic field. These ...

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