The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the ...

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen 'chirp' in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the ...

It is one of history’s more irritatingly on-brand coincidences that Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day, as though the universe itself decided that if it was going to manufacture the patron saint of ...

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Later this month, Anacortes High School students will bring to life the seemingly unrelated stories of about a dozen people ...

The results reveal that our universe is reverberating with cosmic collisions. Some of the waves stem from pairs of black ...