BlueMUSE will provide detailed observations within the Milky Way and our galactic neighbourhood, helping study targets as ...

Sabrina González Pasterski, a physicist with Cuban roots and an academic background from MIT and Harvard, seeks to clarify a media label that's been ...

While young women, born with a knack for math and pursuing scientific fields, are still haunted by imposter syndrome, they now have a role model. Presented as the intellectual counterpart to Albert ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...

The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun, and the clouds of smoke billowing off a forest fire—all are ...

So cosmologists feel confident in modelling the universe using the “maximally symmetric” description of space-time in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This symmetric vision for the universe, ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Recent observations suggest that 'runaway' black holes are tumbling through the cosmos. Building on decades of theory, the discovery adds a remarkable new chapter to the story of the universe.