Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) explores the long-debated potential of ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

Stacking light-generating layers in ‘tandem’ light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can enhance performance, but achieving efficient and stable tandem LEDs made with perovskite materials has remained a ...