The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, announce the discovery of...
Astronomers have made a thorough forensic study of a star that was torn apart when it ventured too close to...
Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole’s spin, one of two fundamental properties of black holes. NASA’s...
The Universe is a large place, and there are a lot of large things in it. Not just galaxies, but...
In 1969, English physicist Roger Penrose discovered a property which would later allow for a long-awaited link between thermodynamics, and...
Supermassive black holes tend to sit, more or less stationary, at the centers of galaxies. But not all of these...
Space travel is all about momentum. Rockets turn their fuel into momentum that carries people, satellites and science itself forward...
Gravitational wave astronomy has just given us another amazing gift: the first observational confirmation of one of Stephen Hawking‘s predictions...
A high-energy neutrino traced back to a violent encounter between a black hole and a star needs a different origin...
Neutron stars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe, and the only way to measure their surface magnetic field...
The most comprehensive view of the history of the universe ever created has been produced by researchers at The Australian...
In a new study, Stanford researchers demonstrate how to manipulate atoms so they interact with an unprecedented degree of control....
