Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...

Allan Donald sees MI Cape Town as the favourites to win the SA20 trophy but emphasises Sunrisers Eastern Cape's peak form and experience. With a strong recent performance, Donald highlights the ...

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise to mysterious "low-field magnetars." ...

Here, quantum states are prepared with unequal distribution of uncertainty between conjugate observables, in this case, the projections of the angular momentum ... from the Sun beyond about ...

Black holes do not have many defining characteristics that can help astronomers trace back their origins. Fortunately, new ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive 'tornado' on the sun in multiple wavelengths. Unlike the Earth, ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

New observations from Solar Orbiter confirm tiny plasma jets play a key role in both fast and slow solar wind.