With the advent of commercial spaceflight, an increasing number of people may be heading into space in the coming years. Some ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Will challenges to drinking from this heavy mug. Who can do it? Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files One Punch Man Routine for 30 Days Nearly Broke Me Democrats sink to record-low ...

To alumnus Gal Weitz (EngrPhys, ApMath’22), Boulder was a “dream destination” for undergrad. Now working in quantitative finance, Weitz shares how his education at CU Boulder set him up for success in ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...

The quiet of the night sky will briefly stir this week, as an airplane-sized asteroid prepares to pass close to Earth. The flyby is drawing keen attention from astronomers worldwide. How close will ...

On a clear night, we gaze at stars and wonder. Occasionally, a giant visitor from space captures our attention. An asteroid roughly the size of a building is heading near Earth. How close will ...

It’s one thing when a respected scientist has a novel idea of what dark matter or dark energy might be, or what could explain spooky quantum phenomena like entanglement and superpositions. But the ...

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) on Aug. 20 at a pivotal time for the race toward reliable fusion energy, which decisions ...