Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

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

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

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has developed an eco-friendly, very stable, ultra-bright material and used it to generate deep-blue light (emission ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

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 ...