When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird ...

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture the vibrant remains of a dying star in stunning new ...

In recent months, Ireland became an associate member of Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. This is a very welcome development for physicists, engineers and computer scientists ...

Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain (Interstellar) returns as alien-obsessed trauma psychiatrist Dr. Madeline Wyle in season two of Audible's science fiction thriller series, The Space Within.

A Texas A&M lab built in the 1960s to study the universe has evolved into a world-leading facility testing electronics for ...

From Earth spinning on its axis and orbiting the Sun to it precessing like a top, lots of factors affect which stars you can ...

The Cosmic Diary of a Future Space Explorer is Blue Peter's Book Club choice for March 2026. Learn more about space travel as it is today, and what it could look like in the future in this exciting ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other institutes have proposed a new way to address the Hubble tension by comparing ...

Scientists mapped a hidden "sea of light" from hydrogen 9–11 billion years ago, revealing how the early universe was structured.