A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...
For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...
The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...
"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...
Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...
Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...
Late October offers a meteor shower generated by Haley's Comet plus a once in a lifetime comet that streaks by Earth every ...
It wasn’t until Albert Einstein that we developed a more sophisticated mathematical understanding of time and space that allowed physicists to probe deeper into the connections between them. In their ...
The comet is fast approaching its closest encounter with Earth on Tuesday, March 21, a harmless 28.6 million miles.
Time and space-time Of course, scientists want to understand how we experience time in mathematical terms that can be tested through experiments. In relativity, the three dimensions of physical space ...