Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.

A still image from a numerical simulation of a black-hole binary merger. Credit: LIGO - N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and ETH Zürich have created the first integrated map detailing ...

Scientists have detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves, using the US ...

Merger creates black holes weighing 240 times the mass of our Sun — the heaviest binary black hole system confirmed through ...

A new discovery reveals how a mysterious quantum spin excitation — a solitary spinon — can exist alone, hinting at advances in quantum technologies. Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the Unive ...

In late June and early July, a heatwave swept through Europe bringing with it temperatures of over 40°C in many countries.  ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

Titles banned, data deleted, the nation’s librarians sacked without explanation – Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to ...

Michael Mosley's most memorable quotes, from embracing hunger to wanting to meet his grandchildren - As a new documentary ...

Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist ...