A groundbreaking discovery published in Nature Astronomy has revealed a cosmic phenomenon that may finally settle a ...

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, ...

Research suggests that Saturn's rings don’t end where the eye expects - specks of ring material seem to float above and below ...

Algebraic structures provide a comprehensive framework for understanding systems governed by operations such as addition and multiplication. In this context, noncommutative rings—where the order of ...

The Cassini spacecraft has obtained the most detailed look ever at Saturn’s rings, including the B ring, which has eluded previous robotic explorers. Its structure seems remarkably different from its ...

Sometimes, light curves of stars and pulsars have wonky, flickering properties, and some scientists wonder if these light curves could be caused by artificial megastructures built by advanced ...

When planetary rings are mentioned, the image of Saturn immediately comes to mind. However, this celestial feature is not exclusive to gas giants and appears in much more unexpected places in the ...

In images made possible only as Saturn nears equinox, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has uncovered for the first time towering vertical structures in the planet’s otherwise flat rings that are attributable ...

Chemists have synthesized so-called heteroatom-substituted cage-like 3D molecules. The innovative structures are created by precisely inserting a triatomic unit into the strained ring of a reaction ...