The proposed next generation of gravitational wave detectors will require hundreds of kilometers of ultrahigh vacuum beam ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of ...

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

In the booming era of AI and blockchain, the question is no longer “What result does AI produce?” but rather “How can we ...

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Scientists have proposed Earth is in the middle of a huge void in space, potentially resolving the cosmic mystery known as ...

An artist's impression of the UK-led CosmoCube spacecraft, which would orbit be tasked with listening out for an "ancient ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...