Baby sea turtles depend on the natural glow of moonlight to find their way from the beach to the ocean. But that path is now being disrupted on Little St. Simons Island.

The giant atoms naturally turn into a time crystal. This discovery is not just intriguing for the study of the Rydberg atoms, which have been known for less than a decade; it is also a completely new ...

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Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...

Deep in the heart of our galaxy lies one of the most chaotic and mysterious regions in space. Now, scientists have created ...

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

After NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Swift Observatory spotted the BOAT, , an international team of astronomers ...

For more than 150 years, the OJ 287 galaxy and its brightness variations five billion light years away has both puzzled and ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?