Unistellar marks its 10th anniversary with a call to stargazers: observe 10 comets this autumn in partnership with the SETI ...

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Astronomers have just detected the brightest cosmic flash ever recorded—an ultra-powerful radio burst from deep space that’s ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

Wei Jia Ong, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been recognized as the recipient of the American Physical ...

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Using the joint Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), scientists uncovered a dense but surprisingly slow wind ...

IUCAA scientist explains gravity, gravitational waves to students at SRM University-AP outreach event, featuring academic sessions and hands-on experiments.

"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so ...

When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to Caltech’s latest supercomputer simulations, we’re getting a front-row seat to the whole terrifying ...