Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled out yet. One involves a medium-size black hole, thousands of times heavier ...

Australia’s night sky is set to light up in a “natural fireworks show” this weekend, as the Geminid meteor shower is scheduled to spark up the dark across the country. The Geminids, which are active ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

A team of computational astrophysicists from the Institute for Advanced Study and the Flatiron Institute's Center for ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Apologies to our art director, who must depict a plane plunging after being blasted by cosmic rays, which is something that ...

Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

Based on a list compiled by the American Institute of Physics, UNG had 19 physics graduates in 2023-24. As impressive as ...