Scientists have discovered the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, about 1.3 billion light-years wide.
The structure was named after the ancient Incan system of making knots with thread to record data. Quipu is massive, about 13,000 times the...
Researchers discovered that the use of mayonnaise, a common kitchen ingredient, may help unlock nuclear fusion secrets.
In a study published in May in the journal Physical Review E, scientists used mayonnaise in an experiment. They placed the creamy mixture...
A group of astronomers from Yunnan University, the University of Utah, New Mexico State University, and the University of St Andrews have devised a new way of understanding the Milky Way galaxy. They studied red giants and used their...
An unusual stone disk, discovered in Italy and dated to around three thousand years ago, may be an ancient map of the brightest stars in the night sky. This would include the Pleiades, the seven sister-nymphs of Greek mythology,...
More than 200 RR Lyrae stars—distant variable stars—have been found by astronomers in the Milky Way's stellar halo. Over a million light-years separate us from the furthest of these stars. This is roughly half the distance to our nearest...
Konstantinos Vasilakakos can be called a photographer of the stars—not the Hollywood stars but the celestial elements that fill the night sky and truly fascinate all those who gaze at them.
Vasilakakos is a great fan of night photography and...
As the year 2020 has had one unusual occurrence after another, it seems fitting that the year will end with another extremely rare event -- what astronomers say is a "triple conjunction" of planets, which will perhaps be another...
