Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Well, could the same magnetic chaos that powers solar flares also drive some of the universe’s fastest winds? Astronomers have just watched a supermassive black hole perform something startlingly ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

What travels almost one-fifth the velocity of light and erupts from the heart of a galaxy? For the very first time, astronomers have just watched it happen-the birth of an ultrafast outflow, or “UFO,” ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

The director of “Hamnet” says that her art has been shaped by her early love of manga, her relationship to the natural world, ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

It’s been an eventful season so far for the Edmonton Oilers. With the team seemingly getting closer to waking up from their ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

I’ve decided to start Christmas early. It’s my small contribution to Britain going to the dogs: no one else can be bothered to work, so why should I? So I put my feet up in the press gallery, munched ...