Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

Using various space telescopes, an international team of astronomers have observed a newly detected very faint X-ray ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

The GWTC 4.0 catalog records 128 new gravitational wave signals, revealing mergers of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO.

Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts contains a ratio of sulfur ...

The small, furtive companion of one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky has just turned out to be something no one ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.

The final reactor shell and core basket casing for Russia’s lead-cooled BREST-OD-300 have been delivered to the Seversk site.

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...