NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Material that doesn't become a planet may be flung outward, beyond a growing star's gravitational influence. In our own Solar System, the outer boundary of the Oort Cloud marks the place where the ...

Every year the Minnesota Justice Research Center hosts the “Re-Imagining Justice” conference, bringing together stakeholders who want to see a more effective, humane criminal legal system that ...

In a world first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting this black hole. The system is known as D9.

The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

Should you throw out your black plastic spatula? A recent study that reported alarming levels of several flame retardants in common black-colored plastic items (including cooking utensils ...

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew takes some adventuring downtime in episode 4 in exchange for more heartfelt moments and character development. Skeleton Crew continues to be the rare sort of on-screen ...

In a world first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting this black hole. The system is known as D9. Its ...

The one in the middle of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star), is about 4 million times more massive ... “We observed the system just in time.” The Associated Press ...