How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...
As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...
Astronomers are baffled by 3I/ATLAS, a newly discovered interstellar object that appears to be defying the basic laws of ...
For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...
Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...
Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...
A distant chemical signature, captured by the infrared eye of the James Webb Space Telescope, has just opened a new window ...