Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Earth’s second moon will make a close approach to the planet next week before drifting off into space, never to...
Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from the fact...
There are supermassive black holes. There are ultramassive black holes. How large can these strange objects grow? Well, there could...
A brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system on April 15, triggering many space-based instruments, including those...
A white dwarf isn’t your typical kind of star. While main sequence stars such as our Sun fuse nuclear material...
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time....
For decades, scientists have wrestled with a complex mystery of physics: Could the immense amounts of energy theoretically produced by...
Before DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest...
Roughly every 114 days, almost like clockwork, a galaxy 570 million light-years away lights up like a firework. Since at...
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a...
A galaxy billions of light-years away is the most distant of its kind we’ve found to date, embodying yet another...
