The seventh Starmus Festival took place May 12–17 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was a smashing success all the way around. Starmus stands for stars and music, and this celebration has grown into the ...

This will be my last column for The Dispatch. I will be moving to a new job after more than 30 years as a university professor. Today’s topic is what interests me the most in the field of cosmology.

Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...

This exploration examines the Eternal Universe theory, which suggests that the cosmos has no true beginning or end, ...

“Viewing the Beginning of Time from the Most Remote Places on Earth” by Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD, SLAC, Kavli Institute Shortly after the birth of the universe, space was filled by a plasma that was ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Black holes are regions of spacetime with gravity so strong that nothing escapes. Black holes grow by consuming nearby matter, slowing their eventual evaporation. Hawking radiation causes black holes ...

Sir Francis Graham-Smith in 2007: he carried out much important work on pulsars - Science Photo Library Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of ...