Articles by

Elise Cutts

Physicists get a first glimpse of the elusive isotope nitrogen-9

Researchers may have just spotted the elusive, ephemeral nucleus of nitrogen-9 for the first time. With seven...

A rare glimpse at a relatively nearby supernova offers clues to how stars die

In May, a star in the Pinwheel galaxy exploded in just the right place at nearly the...

In a first, astronomers spot the afterglow of an exoplanet collision

In a solar system about 1,800 light-years from Earth, two planets smacked into one another in an...