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

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow ...

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

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

In September 2015, humanity heard the sound of the universe for the first time: gravitational waves predicted by Albert ...

In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team led by astronomer Run-Chao Chen of Nanjing ...

Chelsea decided to sell Nicolas Jackson to Bayern Munich in the summer, following one of the most complicated sagas of the summer transfer window. While it looked like a good move following the summer ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy, one of the newest and most exciting fields in science, may soon take a major step forward thanks to a breakthrough in optical technology. A team led by Jonathan ...

The seven young actors who portrayed the Von Trapp family children sang and danced throughout 1965's movie classic, "The Sound of Music." They remained close — two of them even went to prom together. ...