DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has launched a real-time alert system, capable of issuing up to 800,000 alerts per night, to track asteroids and exploding stars.

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.

In early 2023, a neutrino detector buried in the Mediterranean Sea recorded something extraordinary: a single particle carrying more energy than anything ever detected from space. Now, physicists at ...

Back in 2000, a team of physicists led by Lijun Wang at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, USA, pulled off a mind-bending experiment. They fired a precisely shaped laser pulse through a special ...

As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing track. Your parents would say, “You can’t count them all.”Yet we tried, trying ...

Space myths stick because they sound neat. The real physics is weirder, sharper, and more beautiful once the haze clears. For ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.

Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows for sure — but if they can, a team of scientists argue they may have spotted evidence of ...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and ...

You're not prepared for its size. The post Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a ...