For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

There once was a dream of cities in space — vast cylindrical habitats, self-sufficient and populated by millions who would ...

We may finally know what first lit up the cosmic dawn in the early Universe. According to data from the Hubble and James Webb ...

Time and space-time Of course, scientists want to understand how we experience time in mathematical terms that can be tested through experiments. In relativity, the three dimensions of physical space ...

Explore the universe with multi-messenger astronomy, combining light, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays for a ...

Astronomy enthusiasts in Staten Island and the New York metropolitan area are in for a celestial treat on Oct. 8, 2025, as ...

We were suffering from Stage IV cabin fever, so I suggested a trip down to the new John Glenn open-air observatory, located somewhere in Hocking County and we are lucky to have found the place on the ...

In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the ...

It wasn’t until Albert Einstein that we developed a more sophisticated mathematical understanding of time and space that allowed physicists to probe deeper into the connections between them. In their ...