When discussing the scale of the universe, we’re immediately faced with an intriguing question: are we tiny beings, or is the ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

Astronomers discover a low-mass dark object through gravitational lensing and multiple radiotelescopes across Earth.

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that can help them examine the behavior of a single molecule out of a sea of information in the blink of an ...

Georgia State researchers are joining a bold global mission: to build a revolutionary telescope that could detect life beyond ...

The facility combines 50MW of solar PV capacity with a 5 MWh BESS. Credit: Anna Yordanova/Shutterstock.com. Abu Dhabi-based Global South Utilities (GSU) has inaugurated the Noor Chad 50MW solar ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...