Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the supernova known as SN 2024afav settled into something stranger.

A dark point inside a wave of light sounds like a contradiction. It is also something researchers say they have now viewed in real time, moving so quickly that, by one measure, it outran light itself.

Explore how Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe with groundbreaking theories like relativity and the photoelectric effect. Discover the genius behind E = mc² and the ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...

A team of astronomers have studied two black holes that merged into a massive new one, confirming a 50-year-old theory that ...

Quantum physicists observed atoms entangled in motion for the first time, using helium atoms with mass and gravity, opening new ways to explore how quantum mechanics interacts with gravity.

The findings confirm a theory first proposed 16 years ago by University of California, Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist Dan Kasen. Kasen and his colleagues hypothesized that at least some ...

Astronomers have identified the first clear evidence of a magnetar forming during a superluminous supernova, offering new insight into some of the brightest explosions in the universe.

A peculiarity is emerging in our galaxy as astronomers discover exoplanets: planets orbiting pairs of stars, similar to Tatooine from Star Wars, appear far fewer than expected compared to those ...

It may well take years to prove, but a pair of University of Miami astrophysicists could be on the verge of a cosmic ...