Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of ...

Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...

For the last 25 years, most scientists have believed that about 70% of the universe is formed by something called ‘’dark ...

The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Theoretical research led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga of the University of Portsmouth challenges the ...

The puzzle Einstein and Rosen were addressing was never about space travel, but about how quantum fields behave in curved spacetime. I ...

Scientists use distant gamma ray bursts to prove that light maintains its constant speed, reinforcing Einstein's theory.

Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.