astrophysics
Fast Radio Bursts Are a Sci-Fi Dream with An Astrophysical Source
New research suggests the origins of one of astrophysics' greatest mysteries.
US Collider Appears to Produce Just a Drip of Theorized Low-Energy Quark Soup
Astrophysicists at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider come closer to understanding the milliseconds following the Big Bang.
New Supernova Analysis Questions Dark Energy, Cosmic Acceleration
Timescape cosmology offers a way around one of the universe's best mysteries.
This Huge Telescope is Built Like A Halfpipe and Hunts for Dark Energy
Dark energy is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. No one knows what it is.
Mystery Gravitational Lens Hints at Possible Primordial Black Holes, Dark Matter
At the very least, the new discovery offers a novel way of magnifying the distant cosmos.
Astronomers Observe Slowest Objects Ever Tracked Through Space
The supermassive black holes of galaxy 0402+379 are a couple of cosmic snails.
The Controversy Over the Alien 'Wow!' Signal Is Astronomy's Greatest Beef
A 40-year-old mystery remains unsolved, according to astronomers disputing new research about the Wow! signal.
With a Recycled LHC Magnet, the Axion Solar Telescope Hunts for Ghost Photons
CERN's axion hunt drills down toward New Physics
I Went to the 'Contact' Radio Telescope with the Astrophysicist Behind Twitter's All-Time Sickest Burn
Most scientists famous for talking about science are men who became celebritized well into their careers. Not Katie Mack.
Could Fast Radio Bursts Be Aliens? It's Not Impossible
Harvard astronomers take on some enticing what-if scenarios.