Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

The balloon will lift off into the sky each summer evening from June 21 to Sept. 14, for the next three years.

The convergence of photonic quantum computing and neutral atom arrays charts a bold and expansive trajectory for the future ...

An unknown object slammed into Saturn, possibly marking the first time a collision with the planet has been witnessed in real ...