During June, bright Mars and brilliant Venus are the prominent celestial beacons in Earth’s western skies after sunset. Wandering through the constellation Cancer the Crab, Mars was captured near the ...

Although a broken reaction wheel on NASA's Kepler spacecraft is bad news for its primary exoplanet-hunting mission, the glitch could be a boon for the study of stellar physics NASA’s exoplanet-hunting ...

Scientists replicate the physics of a stellar jet in laboratory Astronomers will tell you that among the most beautiful structures observed in the Universe are the intricate jets of matter speeding ...

A University of California scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory working with astronomers from around the world recently validated a computer model that predicts the rebirth and stellar burning ...

Physicists in France are the first to create a random laser in a cloud of cold atoms under laboratory conditions. The effect was first seen decades ago in stellar clouds and the team believes that its ...