Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

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After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

A light has emerged at the end of the tunnel in the long pursuit of developing quantum computers, which are expected to ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

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Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...