For years, astronomers have worried about how to explain why the Milky Way has fewer satellite galaxies than the standard dark matter model predicts....

Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar.

Supermassive black holes pose unanswered questions for astronomers around the world, not least “How do they grow so big?” Now, an international...

A group of astronomers from Yunnan University, the University of Utah, New Mexico State University, and the University of St Andrews have devised a...

Astronomers, including Open University (OU) academics Helen Fraser and Hugh Dickinson and OU PhD student Zak Smith, have discovered the spectral...

Researchers at Rice University, led by Qimiao Si, have made a groundbreaking discovery in quantum materials. Their study, published in Nature...

Over ten years ago, the rotation of Earth’s inner core started to slow down. It caused slight changes in the length of our days by mere fractions...

Astrophysicists at Caltech have achieved a groundbreaking feat: they have simulated the journey of primordial gas from the early universe to the...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the quasar RX J1131-1231, located about six billion light-years away in the...

Researchers at Mayo Clinic and their collaborators have made a significant discovery in understanding Alzheimer’s disease by identifying unique...