We're now a step closer to understanding how the Universe avoided an antimatter apocalypse. CERN scientists have discovered tantalizing clues of a fundamental difference in the way phys…
The largest image of the Milky Way's center, captured by the ESO's ALMA array. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Longmore et al./ESO/D. Minniti et al.(background) The central region o…
Despite sounding like something out of pulpy '50s sci-fi, 'space lasers' are real – and astrophysicists have now spotted the brightest and most distant one yet. This 'gi…
One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy quietly collapsed into a black hole without any of the fanfare of a spectacular supernova. What makes this startling discovery even more…
It may still be possible to understand what happened, even when our science reaches its limit. The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, yet we cannot truly describe what happens in …
What are we missing? The Hubble tension is one of the most hotly debated discrepancies in all of astronomy. It centers around a number called the Hubble constant, which is functionally th…
This suggests humans didn’t originate on Earth — we came from space. More of the ingredients for life have been found in meteorites. Space rocks that fell to Earth within the last cen…