The historic discovery meant that researchers could now sense the universe through three different means. Gravitational-wave astronomy has e...

A bizarre Black Holes revealed. The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine . At the beginning of time and the center of ...

This problem was first posed in the early 1600s and was the subject of intense public interest. Mathematics is full of open problems that...

This illustration shows a hypothetical ring around the Earth, which could represent a particle accelerator even larger than the Earth’s ...

Southern hemisphere’s largest radio telescope joins search for extraterrestrial tech/MeerKAT. T he largest  radio telescope  in the southern...

Giant impact on Earth, illustration / NASA. New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were fo...

These features are why scientists categorize the Cartwheel as a ring galaxy, which is much less common than spiral galaxies / www.space.com....

Astronomers detect a radio 'heartbeat' billions of light-years from Earth / Stockphoto. Astronomers detected a persistent radio sign...

Proxima Centauri / SPACE.COM. The sun's nearest neighbor may actually host three planets, a new study reports. Astronomers have found ev...

Alpha Centauri: Closest star to Earth (Image credit: MSX/IPAC/NASA) The closest star to Earth are three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. ...

As its name suggests, dark matter — material which makes up about 85% of the mass in the universe — emits no light, eluding easy detection. ...