ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

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

A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

The Virupaksha Temple in Hampi, Karnataka, blends spirituality with a surprising scientific element. This ancient temple ...

Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out ...

As xAI builds a vision-enhanced successor to Grok 4, Elon Musk suggested the AI may soon be capable of discovering new ...

A Dublin student has won the top prize at 'The Eurekas', a major annual awards programme that works to break down barriers to ...

Some faint stars may not burn with fusion but with dark matter itself. These "dark dwarfs" could be the long-awaited clue to ...

LiDAR-based object detectors are critical parts of the 3D perception pipeline in autonomous navigation systems such as self-driving cars. However, they are known to be sensitive to adverse weather ...