Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of supermassive black holes reveals that their spin rates reveal something about ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected several small red objects in the sky. Scientists referred to them […] ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...