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…
It’s probably in this weird particle. Scientists say they can explain dark matter by positing a particle that links to a fifth dimension. While the “warped extra dimension” (WED) is a…
Scientists have determined exactly how Earth's orbit and tilt affect glaciation and deglaciation, based on the length of these parameters' cycles and clues hidden at the bottom of t…
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…