A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

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The reason that teams on multiple telescopes in all different directions could hear this noise is that this annoying sound was actually the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—radiation left over from ...

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If you've ever wanted to make your own pork sausage but didn’t know where to start, this is the perfect place. In this beginner-friendly guide, I’m breaking down the entire sausage-making process—from ...

Join a multidisciplinary team on the world’s largest radio telescope project, as a Mid Computer Systems Engineer. This role involves developing, integrating, and maintaining computer hardware and ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been at the forefront of astronomical observation, and with the ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure diabetes and more.

New research published this week confirms Stephen Hawking’s 1971 theory that the surface area of black holes never shrinks, even during a collision. An international group of scientists, ...

Astronomer de Graaff from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and her team reveal what could be behind the small red dots in the images from the James Webb Space Telescope: black hole stars, which ...