Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

When a distant galaxy briefly outshines everything around it in high-energy light, astronomers usually know which playbook to reach for. Gamma-ray bursts tend to fall into familiar categories, either ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

In this video I show you what happens when you try to get close to 1 drop of a neutron star. I tell you how a neutron star is ...