For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the light itself. They're known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since…
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has d…
"You’ll get to know the difference when you either die or you pass through." A team of physicists from Sofia University in Bulgaria say that wormholes, which are hypothetical tu…
An artist's impression of the detection of the Amaterasu particle. (Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige) A cosmic ray known as Amaterasu struc…
Our own Moon has one of the largest preserved craters in the Solar System, the South Pole-Aitken Basin, located on the far side of the satellite. The area is at the center of many investiga…
Supernovas may be way more violent than we thought. An artist's rendition of a red supergiant star transitioning into a Type II supernova, emitting a violent eruption of radiation and g…
A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope. From the hearts of distant galaxie…