Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.

General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that ...

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go—or don't ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...