Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado reveals how these intergalactic envoys could help prove the quantum n ...

Scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not collide with the moon, ending months of speculation about a potential impact in 2032. Fresh observations reveal the 100-metre-wide space rock ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected 128 new ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some - a small ​fraction - ...

A cosmic mystery surrounding the universe's most dazzling explosions, superluminous supernovas, appears to have been solved by scientists studying a colossal stellar event a billion light-years from ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. One explanation is that it ...

While city lights can hamper stargazing, there are a few prime spots in and around the Mother City to catch grand celestial sights.