Moroccan astrophysicist Meriem El Yajouri has officially joined NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore ...

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A highlight of Weinersmith’s visit was the balloon launch on the Quad, followed by a lecture based on the content of A City on Mars. The launch is tied to St. Kate’s recent collaboration with the ...

Is time something that flows — or just an illusion? Exploring space-time as either a fixed “block universe” or a dynamic fabric reveals deeper mysteries about existence, change, and the very nature of ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

Zimbabwean science takes a giant leap forward with the pioneering work of Frank Chingarandi, a space physicist whose research is unveiling vital knowledge about space weather and its implications for ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases the size of the Moon’s orbit. This means that the Moon gets slightly farther ...

When Rutgers theoretical astrophysicist Charles Keeton first saw an unusual picture shared by his colleague, he was intrigued ...

One question, for instance, might be why can't we? Atoms, which are the building blocks of matter, are mostly empty space.

It's one thing when a respected scientist has a novel idea of what dark matter or dark energy might be, or what could explain ...