For nearly three decades, astronomers have interpreted the faint luminosity of certain distant explosive stars as a sign of ...

Sean Buckley has spent the last decade writing about consumer technology, video games, PC hardware, science fiction and animation. He likes to review over-powered laptops, obsess over non-conventional ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Astronomers have chased the first stars for decades, squinting at the early universe for any hint of their brief, brilliant ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Astronomers may have misread cosmic acceleration for 27 years. The universe may be slowing down, not speeding up.

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited the young cosmic clouds. If you stood inside one of those ancient ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

September is supposed to be Wall Street’s notorious villain, rattling the stock market and driving investors to panic — but this year, it eschewed the role. Instead, the S&P 500 SPX and the Nasdaq ...