QUICK FACTS Milestone: Discovery of radium and polonium Date: Dec. 26, 1898 Where: Paris Who: Marie and Pierre Curie, Gustave Bémont On this day, chemists discovered...
Space is full of wonders, but some celestial structures defy explanation. From vast rings that encircle stars to mysterious voids that seem to swallow light, the...
quick facts What it is: Gamma-ray burst GRB 250702B Where it is: 8 billion light-years away, in the constellation Scutum When it was shared: Dec. 8,...
Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary. The twin...