We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

For the first time, researchers have seen how light behaves during a mysterious phenomenon called 'imaginary time'. When you ...

Five years after a widely revered study was debunked as totally bogus, Helen Coffey asks the experts whether trust in the ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

A resident of Henry County, Georgia, reported a rock coming through their roof around the time they heard the sonic boom from ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

Arnaldo Pomodoro, one of Italy’s most prominent contemporary artists, has died at age 98. Pomodoro’s massive bronze spheres ...

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

The researchers observed the Sculptor Galaxy for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument ...

Unlike its Gulf neighbours, many of which have gone full throttle into tourism megaprojects, Kuwait is taking a more measured ...