Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Ever since, it's been thought of as a constant, immutable presence. Now, the latest observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) indicate that dark energy has actually changed ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

This article presents the measurements of the luminescence and scintillation under X-ray of undoped, Si-doped, and Si, B codoped gallium-arsenide (GaAs) samples at cryogenic temperature over a wide ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope team explains how the observatory will help solve the mysteries of the cosmos including the search for life.

Dr Victoria Fawcett has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical ...