The observations offer a rare glimpse into our solar system's early history.

The physics behind stable circular orbits in binary stars explores how gravitational forces balance to create long-term orbital stability between two stars. Learn the fundamental principles of ...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron ...

How then does a neutron star radiate into space even in the absence of anything to replenish the radiance? One of the solutions is a strange counterintuitive effect of contemporary physics that empty ...

As far as cool sci-fi weapons go, lightsabers are pretty high up there. I mean, who didn’t watch Star Wars growing up and immediately want one of their own? They’re powerful, precise, awesome. In the ...

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Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein calculated the entropy of a black hole in the 1970s, but it took physicists until now to figure out the quantum effects that make the formula work Stephen Hawking ...

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking what happens when the observer is part of that world ...