A Compton camera has been used to measure the polarization of gamma rays in a nuclear physics experiment. This was done by a team...

IntroductionIn 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-size rocky planet. Knowing of no way that phosphine could be...

Gravastars, hypothetical alternatives to black holes, could end up nested inside one another like a Russian Matryoshka doll  – according to new calculations that...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced it will only support the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) or the Thirty Meter...

Having emerged from amateur beginnings in the backyards of radio engineers, radio astronomy is now the focus of elite, international global consortia. Emma Chapman...

IntroductionClusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos....

The first direct observation of water on the surface of an asteroid has been made using an airborne near-infrared telescope. Water was detected on...

A private US firm has successfully made a soft landing on the Moon. The Odysseus mission touched down at 6:24 p.m. ET on Thursday...

IntroductionUnlike many astronomers, Erin Kara didn’t grow up star-struck. “I don’t have that story of being that little kid staring up at the stars...

Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AIKeach Hagey | The Wall Street Journal“The OpenAI chief executive officer is...

In the search for a cosmological model that perfectly explains our universe, most astronomers invoke the notion of dark matter. But...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally approved the start of construction for its space-based...