Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet that could be in the habitable zone of its star. Therefore, it has garnered ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

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

An artist's impression of the UK-led CosmoCube spacecraft, which would orbit be tasked with listening out for an "ancient ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Yesterday’s rugged flashlights can move aside. There’s an upgraded version in town, thanks to advancements in science and ...

This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

At the recentRoyal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England, groundbreaking new evidence was ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...