For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks.

On March 19th, 2025 starting at 7:30 p.m., the Moe Visiting Lectureship has Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein stepping on stage in Alumni Hall to give some words of experience, wisdom, and encouragement to ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers ...

Teladoc founder Michael Gorton’s new sci-fi novel “Tachyon Tunnel 2” explores time travel, space empires, and ...

New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic giants.

A new study by researchers at the University of Sheffield and Complutense University of Madrid suggests that black holes ...

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical questions of our time, with 12 ...

A ring or sphere could, apparently, be stable if surrounded by the right sizes and gravities of other stars.

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...