Jun 2019
The finding confirms that gases are orbiting the Milky Way’s gravitational behemoth
The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last
Jul 2022
A new study finds that quantum signals could travel over interstellar distances
Aliens could send quantum messages to Earth, calculations suggest
Feb 2020
Physicists detected a subtle effect in antihydrogen known as the Lamb shift
Antimatter hydrogen has the same quantum quirk as normal hydrogen
Feb 2024
Bits of rock may point to the oldest known midair asteroid disintegration
An asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica about 2.5 million years ago
Dec 2020
A recent stellar flash may have signaled the birth of a highly magnetic, spinning stellar corpse
Astronomers spotted colliding neutron stars that may have formed a magnetar
Mar 2021
A new clock comparison is the most precise yet, accurate to within a quadrillionth of a percent
Atomic clocks take a step toward redefining the second
Jun 2021
The same physics could give rise to auroras on Jupiter and Saturn
Auroras form when electrons from space ride waves in Earth’s magnetic field
Jan 2019
A disordered design keeps the whole material from collapsing under heavy loads
Being messy on the inside keeps metamaterials from folding under stress
Nov 2020
The fur of Australia’s iconic oddity fluoresces under ultraviolet light
A blue-green glow adds to platypuses’ long list of bizarre features
Jun 2022
Detected by gravitational lensing, the interstellar wanderer may be a hefty neutron star instead
A celestial loner might be the first known rogue black hole