Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

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In an attempt to restructure their local government, a group of Oak Park residents is working to form a community services ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

XRISM’s high-precision X-ray data revealed unusually strong signatures of chlorine and potassium inside the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. These levels are far higher than theoretical models ...

Two new awards totaling $4.8 million will fund next-generation instruments for mid-sized telescopes at Lick and McDonald Observatories, enabling researchers to study how planets and stars form. The ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...