In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Electrons are tiny and constantly in motion. How they behave in a crystal lattice determines key material properties: electrical conductivity, magnetism, or novel quantum effects. Anyone aiming to ...

Researchers from Germany, Japan and India, led by scientists from DESY and the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg, have found a way to collectively make molecules on a flat surface rotate by exposing ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an ...

The breakout Bulldogs forward suffered a left knee injury in a January practice that left him with a four-to-eight-week ...

A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. One explanation is that it ...

Scientists had predicted based on theory that shrouded cosmic explosions that go unnoticed can be revealed by their light echoes. Now, astronomers have spotted such an explosion.

When a comet from another star system drifts through the solar system, astronomers do not just see an icy traveler. They see a rare chance to test whether familiar space physics still holds up when ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The ...

In 2023, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope spotted an unusual class of short gamma-ray bursts, whose origin appeared to be the collision of two neutron ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a collision" ...