The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through...
Scientists understand quite well how temperature affects electrical conductance in most everyday metals like copper or silver. But in recent...
The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international...
An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the black hole at the center...
A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters—old, dense...
About 400,000 years after the universe was created began a period called “The Epoch of Reionization.” During this time, the once...
The discovery of a supermassive black hole in a relatively small galaxy could help astronomers unravel the mystery surrounding how...
“I see thy glory like a shooting star.” So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future...
The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in physics: It concerns the motions of systems of three bodies—like...
Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth....
A new method of analyzing the complex data from massive astronomical events could help gravitational wave astronomers avoid a looming...
The Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair’s breadth of the...
