Type 1a supernovae serve as 'standard candles' in the night sky An international team of researchers has measured the mass of a distant exploding star system – and found that it weighs considerably ...

Your birthday cake isn’t the only thing studded with lights. If you see a faint light in the distance, it might be truly dim, or it might be quite bright but very far away. If you had some way of ...

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test that shows it is ready to detect the "ashes" left over from a unique primordial soup that filled the universe immediately after the Big Bang. The ...