The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

Scientists say dolphins and orcas have teamed up to hunt salmon off British Columbia. It’s the first time such behavior has ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

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Explore the debate surrounding a potential dark matter discovery, highlighting skepticism and the need for rigorous ...

Scientists from the UK and Austria have developed a new AI tool that can simulate the superheated plasma inside a fusion ...

Pulsars are some of the most reliable metronomes in the universe, and scientists are now using their flickering radio beams ...

JWST spots a mature early-universe spiral as CERN reveals how light nuclei form in extreme collisions, challenging core ...

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...

A wormhole, also known as an Einstein–Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical structure predicted by Einstein’s general theory of ...

Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The ...

A distant neutron star unexpectedly reawakened, unleashing a powerful X-ray surge that may reveal how the universe’s most ...