If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making ...

Mandel looks back fondly on his time at the University.

An international team, spearheaded by Prof. Luciano Rezzolla at the Goethe-Universität, has invented a novel approach to ...

The most discreet dwarf galaxies in our Universe reveal a gravitational anomaly that has intrigued astronomers for decades. While large spiral galaxies seem to follow well-established rules, ...

Multi-Award-Winning independent theatre company Rogue Projects are pleased to be presenting Bradford Elmore's playwriting ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile.