Cosmology

South Africa wins science panel's backing to host SKA telescope

In less than two months of operation, an experiment at a Chinese nuclear power plant has measured one of the missing parameters that describes neutrino behavior

The next couple of nights may see intense northern lights shows, although the extent is hard to predict

A new supernova yields clues to how white dwarfs flame out

Some say its glory days are long gone, but the universe has life in it yet. Brand-new types of celestial phenomena will unfold over the coming billions and trillions of years

Resolving how the galaxy's halo of stars was assembled would provide important clues about galactic formation

An excerpt from physicist Lawrence M. Krauss's new book explains why we are not the center of the universe

Do we have autonomy, or are our choices preordained? Is that a false choice? And what, if anything, does physics have to say about that?

An experiment going up outside of Chicago will attempt to measure the intimate connections among information, matter and spacetime. If it works, it could rewrite the rules for 21st-century physics

During the cold war the U.S. found ways to work with the Soviet Union on space missions

The array could be the most complex and versatile radio telescope ever attempted, with the capacity to sweep the entire northern sky in 45 days for low-frequency radio waves