Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

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It was a lonely, sequestered life. But not, as we soon discovered, as lonely and sequestered a life as the one about to be ...

We all know that stars radiate light and much more. But radiation belts can also surround many other celestial bodies, such as planets. These belts do not generate particles themselves—the belts ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing through space at roughly 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to eventually ...

Planet 9 project have identified an object traveling at an incredible 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to escape the ...

For four decades, many SETI experiments have focused on finding sharp spikes in frequency but the new study says signals may not stay narrow as they travel away from their home system.

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

According to an estimate the Pentagon shared with Congress, the U.S. used up billions of dollars in munitions in the first ...