While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

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

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"Learned helplessness" is a psychological concept introduced by Martin E. Seligman and Steven F. Maier in 1967. It describes a condition in which individuals, after repeated failed attempts to change ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

The world’s largest space telescope, comprising thousands of antennae in the southern hemisphere, will generate massive ...

As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in ...

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It’s been over three full years since NASA’s Webb Space Telescope began "unfolding the universe" as the space agency promised with stellar images and spectroscopy of other worlds. In July, NASA, the ...