ENGRAVE, led by Oxford professor Stephen Smartt, wins top European research award for revealing how gold, platinum and heavy ...

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 ...

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

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

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

And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.

An international team of scientists, led by Olaf Scholten, professor of astrophysics at the University of Groningen, has ...

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 ...

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

ENGRAVE, led by Oxford professor Stephen Smartt, wins top European research award for revealing how gold, platinum and heavy elements form in ...

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

There is a way out of this trap, but it requires a fundamental shift in how NASA thinks about astrophysics procurement. It is time to stop buying hardware and start subscribing to outcomes. It is time ...