Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

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Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

The scientists published their findings July 2 in the journal Nature Astronomy. For these reasons ... a supernova that displays a clear shock wave shell pattern. Using the telescope's Multi Unit ...

"A young star of this type is an angry beast, especially if you're sitting as close up as this planet does," said Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy astrophysicist Ekaterina Ilin, lead author ...

In a state famous for its glitzy beaches and crowded tourist hotspots, Blythe quietly waits at California’s eastern edge like that intriguing character in a movie who says little but steals every ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

For the first time, spin waves, also known as magnons, have been directly observed at the nanoscale. This breakthrough was ...

Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in ...

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Scientists develop a more accurate way to analyse gravitational waves, that could give us a clearer picture of the Universe’s most extreme collisions, led by the University of Portsmouth, England.