Today, we stand on sacred ground, not only for its pristine, radio-quiet skies, but for its role in uniting nations to ...

A vast river of neutral hydrogen bridges two galaxies that are beginning to enter the monstrous Virgo Cluster, and this ...

What if everything you thought you knew about the zodiac was wrong? What if you weren't the sign you thought you were, but ...

An astrophotographer from Reunion Island captured comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS and C/2025 R2 SWAN racing side-by-side.

Astronomers studying a rare Einstein Cross stumbled upon an impossible “fifth image” that shouldn’t exist — and it revealed ...

The PROSPECT detector at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor performed precise antineutrino ...

Sceptics say the mission is too ambitious and risky but space exploration has so far delivered science and engineering ...

Scientists have uncovered a revolutionary method to harness energy from one of the universe’s most enigmatic phenomena: black holes. This groundbreaking discovery could potentially solve some of Earth ...

We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).

Interference from human activity has always been a sticking point in astronomical observations. Radio astronomy is ...

Menstrual cycles once tracked the moon. Today, artificial light and smartphones may be disrupting this ancient biological connection.

In the past three decades astronomers have discovered more than 6000 exoplanets – planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Many of these exoplanets are very unlike the eight planets of the solar ...