New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters ...

At least some evidence suggests that NGC 2775 developed its odd shape after merging with other galaxies eons ago. While not ...

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

The mission of The Spectro-Photometer for the History of our Universe is an unprecedented accomplishment in astronomical studies. The SPHEREx telescope has the capability of detecting over 450 million ...

As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated ...

Reproducing the Milky Way star by star posed a major challenge for scientists, due to computational limitations imposed by ...

Physics World and Physics Magazine are launching a Quantum Pitch Competition for attendees of the 2025 World Conference of Science Journalists in Pretoria, South Africa. The two publications invite ...

Seeing the light: Alison Stott adjusts her new glass artwork Naturally Focused, which will go on permanent display at the University of Bristol. (Courtesy: Alison Stott) UK artist Alison Stott has ...

Rybicki, M. (2025) Black Hole as a Topological Hole in the Fabric of Spacetime. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 1799-1817. doi ...

Matter is made up of small particles called atoms. Atoms can exist on their own or together as molecules. Atoms are very small and around 100,000,000 of them end to end would measure 1 centimetre.