Start-ups say we’re closer than ever to near-limitless, zero-carbon energy from fusion. When will we get there?

At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the ...

A supernova close enough to Earth could strip the ozone layer and cause mass extinction, but no immediate threat exists.

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

In the expanse of space, where stars burn and galaxies collide, there exists a type of star so strange and powerful that it ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

This makes the neutron capture on iron-59 especially challenging to measure ... Spyrou’s team concluded that the likelihood ...