Scientists resolve the mystery of dark nights and bright days as they decode the Olbers paradox and reveal the universe's ...

An international team has demonstrated a new method for producing the most intense light ...

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies ...

Cosmic viewer The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile was used by the team to observe gravitational interactions between ...

The celestial objects were unknown until a little more than 60 years ago, but even the name is now part of our lexicon.

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals ...

A new device for creating individual "phonons" — vibrational quanta — could give rise to the acoustic equivalent of lasers.

Amazon has allegedly asked for the TV adaptation of Mass Effect to be rewritten to make it "more appealing to non-gamers". That's according to The Ankler, which reports that the new head of global TV, ...

Spread the loveIn a remarkable advancement in cosmic cartography, researchers at Ohio State University have unveiled a ...

Gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force. For decades, physicists have recognized exactly ...

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have successfully recreated key features of black hole physics in a laboratory setting ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument spent five years observing the sky from Arizona. Now, researchers have a trove of ...