Support for science in the U.S.With its new Transatlantic Program, the Max Planck Society aims to strengthen collaboration ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Hovering fish aren’t loafing—they burn twice resting energy to make micro-fin tweaks that counteract a natural tendency to ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 billion light years.

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NSF NRAO) Very Large Array (NSF VLA), ...

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 ...