Researchers looking through data from NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR)'s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

A 50-million-light-year-long flow of hydrogen gas has been observed linking two tiny galaxies 50 million light-years away, ...

In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology expands one of the largest public-private partnerships in science, strengthening U.S. leadership in astronomy and engineeringPASADENA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Astronomy has a way of surprising you. When you believe the universe has yielded its biggest secrets, distant giants and ...

Ripples in spacetime now give astronomy a second sense. The network listens to collisions, maps a low-frequency background ...

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

Einstein’s version of dark energy is known as the cosmological constant. It implies a fixed amount of dark energy in each ...

Until now, holograms have been created using lasers, but now researchers have used a new ensemble of components that could ...