A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a ...

Researchers from the South Pole Telescope project team looked deep into the center of the Milky Way, discovering powerful, ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

Unveiling the Latest Spacenews Magazine Discoveries This issue of Spacenews Magazine is packed with some seriously cool ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

A rare and intense energy flare from the sun has reached our planet, leading to what scientists say is the most violent solar ...

HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many ...

Scientists aim to build the first graviton detector to explore gravity's quantum nature, despite significant challenges.

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...