Supernovae like these are very luminous and referred to as "standard candles" in astronomy. As fixed points, they are used to ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory ...

Though nominated five times, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. On the shortlist in 1948, Gandhi was ...

Donald Trump has now tied his self-proclaimed role in halting an India-Pakistan war to a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. At the ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

The Norwegian-born condensed-matter physicist Ivar Giaever, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973, died on 20 June at the age of 96. In the late 1950s, Giaever made pioneering progress in the ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a rousing, emotional welcome upon arriving in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, on the ...

Conn is the third UC San Diego recipient of the Vannevar Bush Award. Roger Revelle, considered to be a founding father of UC ...