An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings...
Solving the mystery of how planets like Earth were formed is an important question for understanding the origin of life....
Through the study of the optical to extreme ultraviolet radiation generated by the accretion of supermassive black holes at the...
A Spanish company launched the country’s first private rocket on Saturday in a step towards bringing Spain into the exclusive...
The probability of detecting a supernova associated with a gamma-ray burst is currently 0.00346%. A network of several telescopes in...
The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with NASA, are taking additive manufacturing to the...
Scientists using the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a dead star called...
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead...
A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger—thanks to the eagle-eye of...
The large-scale structure of the universe—the gigantic, hierarchical cosmic web of structures bound by gravity—is mostly made up of dark...
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The...













