Rice University scientists and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have demonstrated a new method for detecting ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we don't know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, revealing new details about its rotation and the ...

Sir Isaac Newton–he of “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” fame– was a polymath who excelled in math, physics, astronomy, alchemy, and theology.

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several landing craft have crashed or toppled over. With ...

Scientists report that a new class of magnetism, called altermagnetism, can increase memory device operation speeds by up to ...

Sir Isaac Newton — he of "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" fame — was a polymath who excelled in ...

The KU Physics & Astronomy Department chair, Christopher Fischer, sent an email to department students Friday afternoon that ...

R esearchers are raising alarms about the growing threat of space debris to airplanes. According to a recent study published ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...