"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

On February 13, 2023, the ARCA detector, part of the neutrino telescope KM3NeT located off the southeast coast of Sicily, recorded a neutrino with an estimated energy of approximately 220 quadrillion ...

WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor “Mysterium” is based on the concept of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or residual radiation leftover from the Big Bang that now permeates every inch ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling into these black holes liberates an enormous ...

On COSMIC, Amentum will deliver advanced technologies to elevate operational innovation for our national space infrastructure.

"Formally, this light is called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), but we sometimes just call it the universe's baby picture because it's a snapshot of when it was around 380,000 years old." ...

They then bombarded the film with extremely bright radiation at the NanoTerasu synchrotron facility which opened in April 2024. This bombardment revealed that the ideal composition to maximise ...

China has successfully tested a real-life weapon that evokes the Star Wars Death Star laser. China’s government-imposed secrecy allegedly prevented the project scientists from sharing key ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — A bright blip in a distant galaxy may link two mysterious categories of cosmic flares. The event, which astronomers playfully call the Platypus, could also offer a new way ...

It looked like an asteroid, but it was a Tesla: the space mix-up involving the celestial object 2018 CN41 was resolved in a few hours. Initially cataloged as a new asteroid, it was later ...

The rocks above SNOLAB block the cosmic rays: It’s like turning off the blender. But other “noisy appliances” are on, even underground. They produce radiation, vibration, light and heat. SNOLAB’s ...