Astrophysics

Twenty years after their initial detection, enigmatic blasts from the sky are starting to deliver tentative answers, as well as plenty of science

The latest bounty of 35 events features oddball black holes and a miniature neutron star

A major report outlining the highest priorities and recommendations for U.S. astronomy has finally been released, revealing the shape of things to come

China’s Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope has detected more than 1,600 fast radio bursts from a single enigmatic system

Most of our neighboring planets have magnetic fields, but scientists do not fully understand how they arise

These novel missiles cannot live up to the grand promises made on their behalf, aerodynamics shows

The late physicist’s most infamous statement still beguiles scientists and vexes believers

Astronomers have observed record-breaking photons that strain classical theories of acceleration

At long last, the definitive discovery completes a trifecta of astrophysical events that were forecast by gravitational-wave astronomers

Circumstantial evidence could point to a mind-blowing solution to an antimatter mystery—or to the need for better space-based particle physics experiments

If such an object a mere 1,000 times bigger than an atom passed through your body, the result would not be pretty

New radio-based observatories could soon detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos, opening a new window on extreme cosmic physics