Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

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The Russian state rocket company, Energia, has officially secured a patent for a giant, rotating space architect.

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A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole ...

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China’s Ascendancy in Space Exploration It feels like China’s space program has really been stepping things up ...

Prof. Ralf Schützhold at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has devised an experiment that allows for not only the ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...