The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

In the 1660s Newton demonstrated that white light is composed of all the colors ... deterministic Newtonian universe. He achieved this theoretical breakthrough by thinking about…yes, light.

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

This phase transition would start in some random spot in the cosmos and race outward at the speed of light, containing within it a brand new kind of universe almost certainly incompatible with the ...