PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Three-body problem: A longstanding problem in classical mechanics that tries to calculate the trajectories of three masses ...

A new study suggests the universe might be slowly rotating, completing a full revolution every 500 billion years. This subtle ...

A team of scientists has proposed a revolutionary idea to explain one of the greatest contradictions in our understanding of ...

A new approach suggests that a tiny spin of the universe throughout space might reconcile those conflicting numbers. If the ...

Planets spin, stars spin, and galaxies spin. So maybe the universe is also spinning. This is what a team of researchers has ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

One of the first major meteor showers of the year will coincide with Earth Day this year, offering a heavenly experience for ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

A tiny but radical twist in the fabric of the cosmos could offer a breakthrough in one of astronomy’s most persistent ...