In October 2022, a blast of light from deep space outshone anything humanity has ever witnessed. The gamma-ray burst, later named “The BOAT,” unleashed more energy in seconds than our sun will emit in ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

A new class of composites with tunable microstructures offers better shielding from neutron and gamma radiation.

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The satellite spotted a mysterious 150-second X-ray flare, named EP240414a, from a dying star 4 billion light-years away.

A report found that of 361 systems installed since 2019, 166 (46%) were inoperable at some point, sometimes for as long as ...

Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future ...