Highly energetic and difficult to detect, neutrinos travel billions of light years before reaching our planet. Although it is known...
Across many Asian cultures, there is a much-loved story of Tanabata: the Weaving Princess and the Cow Herder, a happy...
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images aren’t just breathtaking—they contain a wealth of scientific insights and clues that researchers...
In 2019, astronomers observed the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded, or “spaghettified,” after approaching too...
The gravitational constant G determines the strength of gravity—the force that makes apples fall to the ground or pulls the...
We now have new clues about a mysterious stage in the life of binary stars, thanks to research from The...
University of Chicago physicists have invented a “quantum flute” that, like the Pied Piper, can coerce particles of light to...
The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formed—something that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 years—has now...
Communications across the vastness of interstellar space could be enhanced by taking advantage of a star’s ability to focus and...
Researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) have discovered the fastest known star, which...
An international research team led by Willem Adrianus Baan from the star formation and evolution research group of the Xinjiang...
Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole’s spin, one of two fundamental properties of black holes. NASA’s...
