The Voyager probes were the first spacecraft to go interstellar and after almost 50 years in space, they are pretty amazing.

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." ...

Astronomers have smashed the record for the largest-known cloud of energetic particles discovered surrounding a galactic cluster—and the find could shake up established physics. The cluster in ...

Space travel at the speed of light or even faster has long been a dream of science fiction, but what if we could travel 1 light year per second? In this fascinating exploration of space travel beyond ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

"Using the new common signal, we can determine how much of what we're seeing is cosmic glare from light bouncing off the hood ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy particles. The finding hints at ancient black hole ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds ...