Disney/Pixar’s “Hoppers” is a new CGI-animated comedy that succeeds immediately by leaning into Mabel Tanaka, a great new character, and making her the focus, not just someone reacting to a novel ...
Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...
Why would one of the night sky’s best-known stars shine in X-rays far beyond what a massive star should produce? Gamma ...
Unlike ordinary rainbows, fogbows only appear in humid conditions. Here’s the science behind them—and where you have the best ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...
New UNLV-led research is helping to unravel clues to a cosmic mystery that has eluded scientists for decades. Cataclysmic ...
A top White House economist dubbed the weekend report about artificial intelligence risks that had roiled the stock market “science fiction.” The paper from Citrini Research imagines a 2028 world in ...
The Office of Management and Budget is withholding money for NASA’s science missions, a move that bucks Congress and goes against a funding bill signed into law. Officials have directed the space ...
Dustin Swarm, an astrophysicist and assistant professor at the University of Iowa, recently helped capture the first X-ray view of a white dwarf star. Swarm, in collaboration with MIT, studied the ...
On Jan. 31, 1783, William Herschel was creating a catalog of double stars when he spotted 40 Eridani B. This dim white object was part of a triple-star system, and was the first white dwarf ever ...