Nearly 100 years ago, astronomer Fritz Zwicky made a strange discovery while studying the movement of galaxies. He noticed ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

A sleepy week filled with nonconference blowouts locked the College Football Playoff rankings into a near standstill.

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A study by physicist Robert Scherrer has shown that in order for a primary black hole to cause serious injury or death, its ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier to a point where astronomers are now talking seriously about ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

Recently, physics professor Robert Scherrer crunched the numbers to figure out what would happen if a low-mass black hole ...

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, astronomers detected faint “starquakes” rippling through the ...