Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

On January 14, 2025, a gravitational wave dubbed GW250114 reached Earth. Like its predecessor, GW150914, it came from a pair ...

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

The title of the program is “The Lightest and Heaviest Elements and their Isotopes as Powerful Groundater Tracers.” The ...

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

A decade ago, the universe whispered, and humanity, for the first time, had the tools to listen. On September 14, 2015, the ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Researchers have spent ten years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Ten years after the milestone that revolutionized cosmology, scientists grouped in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration present ...