A Northwestern-led team built FLIP (Physics-based Learning for Imaging Planets), a way to subtract a star’s glare from telescope images so faint planets show up. The…
Sandia National Laboratories researchers found a faster, more detailed way to model how X-rays from a nuclear blast near an asteroid could push it off course.…
Using 14 years of Hubble observations, astronomers studied the “Cat’s Tail,” a feature sticking out of the Beta Pictoris debris disk 63 light-years away, Space.com reports.…
New simulations suggest stars in the early universe were packed so tightly they kept colliding, Space.com reports. Slow collisions led to repeated mergers, building single monster…