Astrophysics

A team of engineers from NASA and MIT have designed, built, and tested a new type of aircraft wing constructed from thousands of...

Were it not for Reddit – and the tendency of its visitors to repost ancient video in search of sweet, sweet karma points – many of...

A team of astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a pair of gigantic...

Before you get too excited: none of us will be alive to witness this, so you'll have to use your imagination to picture what it would...

On the heels of the recent claim that dark matter is really a kind of "dark fluid," a team of researchers published a new study that...

Astrophysicists at Durham University have some bad news for anyone who cares about the distant future of this galaxy. Based on the...

When considering models of the universe, there is one very important factor that researchers have struggled with: the presence of...

When reporting on Stephen Hawking's posthumous paper theorizing what happens to matter after falling into a black hole, New York...

Every few months, there seems to be a shocking new discovery or breakthrough theory that promises to finally lay bare the secrets of...

The nearest yet-discovered black holes are still thousands of light years away from Earth, so getting to one and seeing it with our...

Back in February, SpaceX and Elon Musk launched a 2008 Tesla Roadster and its "astronaut" (a mannequin named Starman) into space...

We've said this before, but we'll say it again: black holes are weird. Stephen Hawking once thought they were gateways to another...

Stephen Hawking apparently spent his last days sorting through some of the biggest, most mind-blowing problems in science, including...

There was a time when physics experiments could be carried out with two weighted balls and a tower in Pisa (although Galileo's famous...

You can walk into a store or museum right now and buy a meteorite for a couple bucks, but the odds of getting your hands on a pack of...

The most basic thing we know about cosmic rays are that they are supposed to enter the Earth from space, not the other way around....

To most people, Neil deGrasse Tyson is the cool uncle of popular science: he's humorous, wacky, and a little wise. In fact, he's the...

Jupiter has long held stargazers in thrall with swirling tiger stripes punctuated by a carnelian storm. Now scientists from the United...

One aspect of Einstein’s theory of general relativity has just been proven on an unheard-of supermassive scale at the center of the...

After introducing his theory of general relativity in 1915 and turning the scientific world on its head, Albert Einstein wasn't happy....