Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind runs up against the interstellar medium, the gas, dust, and radiation in the space between the stars. This boundary remains a poorly understood frontier ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, ...

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the ...

Passenger planes currently cannot do supersonic speeds, maxing out at Mach 0.8. However, one pioneer in the world of aviation ...

New research shows that slow oscillations in the brain, which occur during deep sleep and anesthesia, are guided by neuronal excitability rather than structural anatomy.

We know the temperature of Earth's inner core is very roughly about 5,000 Kelvin (K) (4,727°C). It was once liquid, but has ...

Atlantic water temperatures influence summer rainfall on the Tibetan Plateau, shaping water for Central Asia’s rivers, farms, ...

The study, published in iScience, shows that the directionality of slow waves in the cerebral cortex depends on neuronal ...

IMAP, which is 2.4 m in diameter and almost 1 m high, will also support real-time observations of the solar wind and ...

Sci-fi movies like Coherence and Annihilation are among the most challenging in the genre, and you might need a superior ...