The best present this holiday season came in a small package, parachuted into the Australian desert from far within our...
Astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a newly detected white dwarf star known as GD 424. Results of the observational...
For a while now, physicists have been hunting for primordial black holes, exotic objects that could have formed in the...
With just a handful of days left in this strange beast of a year that will most certainly go down...
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which...
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and elsewhere have conducted...
Almost a millennium ago, a major upheaval occurred in Earth’s atmosphere: a giant cloud of sulphur-rich particles flowed throughout the...
A very rare astronomical phenomenon has been in the headlines a lot recently, and for good reason. It will be...
A very rare astronomical phenomenon has been in the headlines a lot recently, and for good reason. It will be hundreds...
Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have detected an “intriguing signal” from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the...
When Shah Bahauddin was deciding what to research for his PhD, he had no intention of becoming embroiled in one...
Over the weekend, astronomers made a tantalizing discovery: a mysterious radio beam that emanated from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri,...
