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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Knowable Magazine reports on attosecond science, revealing how scientists study atomic interactions at unbelievable speeds to ...

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

The world of energy storage is undergoing a transformation, and one of the most exciting innovations is the mechanical battery. Unlike traditional batteries, which store energy chemically, mechanical ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...