Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

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 key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made.

"This successful test marks a major step forward in the development of future satellite control systems." For the first time, ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

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

Scientists have created the first-ever simulation that models every one of the Milky Way’s 100 billion stars, using AI to run ...

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