For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves emanating ...

Light does not “think” in any human sense. Still, under the right conditions, it can behave in a way that looks uncannily ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by several telescopes. This approach, known as long-baseline interferometry, ...

LAWRENCE — For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves ...

So scientists found a workaround. Instead of building one gigantic telescope, they placed smaller telescopes far apart and combined their light. If done correctly, the system behaves like a single ...

It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...

Think of spacetime as a rubber sheet, which is stretched when there are large objects such as stars and black holes.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter. With new approaches to measurement in the quantum realm, ...

A pair of photons enters an optical maze, and sometimes they leave as something new. Not new in the everyday sense, since both were still photons when they came out.

Quantum mechanics replaced the clockwork certainty of classical physics with something far stranger: a framework in which particles do not follow single, predictable paths but instead exist as clouds ...

New research from the University of Kansas untangles a decades-old astrophysical puzzle, showing how competing forces -- gravity’s pull and magnetospheric plasma -- split the radio emissions emanating ...

The astronomical community has spent two decades wondering why the Crab Pulsar, the stellar remnant born from a supernova that Chinese and Japanese astronomers documented in the year 1054, emits radio ...