SCIENCE

This multicolored image of colliding galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1–2403 shows optical data from Hubble plus X-ray data (pink) from Chandra and…

This set of illustrations explains how a large black hole can form from the direct collapse of a massive cloud of…

In 2023, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 collaboration announced their latest results, which were consistent with previous experimental results but had only half…

Time is normally something we measure with clocks: devices that record its passage from one moment to the next. While there…

This portrait of astronomer John Couch Adams, drawn by J.S. Stodart after a photograph by J.E. Mayall. Adams, although initially blamed…

Over time, the Sun loses mass through the emission of solar wind particles and the process of internal nuclear fusion. This…

For the first several billion years of our Universe’s history, the Universe’s expansion rate was decreasing and distant galaxies slow in…

In 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft began their pioneering journey across the Solar System to visit the giant outer…

At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and filled with high-energy, very densely packed, ultra-relativistic…

In 1896, Einstein was admitted into Zurich Polytechnic Institute, where he would graduate in 1900 4th in his graduating class of…