Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...

For every rule in the cosmos, there is a spectacular exception. While most planets orbit in a neat plane, Pluto tumbles at a ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

BEIJING -- A group of Chinese researchers has carried out a comprehensive simulation of the Martian dust cycle, based on ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...