If fusion energy is a must-have for advanced civilizations, evidence of its use could help us find aliens. A new study led by ...

Almost 300 binary mergers have been detected so far, indicated by their passing gravitational waves. These measurements from ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

Stars appear to twinkle because of Earth’s atmosphere. The air bends and scatters the light as it travels to your eyes, making the star’s brightness seem to change. If you were in space, stars would ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced that the world's first nuclear fusion energy plant is expected to come to Chesterfield County. The science behind it is still being studied.

Every star we see in the night sky is like our sun. Sure, some are larger or smaller, and some are hotter or cooler, but all work the same way. Each is a ...

Suspected drone sightings over Northeast US states have set off feverish speculation on and offline as to their origins. The ...

Analysis - Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies ...

This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 — ...

Heavy hydrogen could be important in long-range detections of civilizations, says a pioneering astronomical study.

Every star we see in the night sky is like our sun. Sure, some are larger or smaller, and some are hotter or cooler, but all work the same way. Each is a thermonuclear fusion reactor that converts ...