In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion light-years from Earth, SN 2024afav was a prime example of a superluminous ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

A newly mapped form of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride emerges only under extremely strong magnetic fields, defying long-held expectations about how superconductors behave.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate ...

An aviation engineer has shared his theory on the Malaysia Airlines MH370 search failure, as Ocean Infinity resumed operations in December 2025 nearly 12 years after the Boeing 777 disappeared on ...

Oscars love their biopics, and the best actor category proves it. Here's the best of the best from the past 25 years, including Will, Denzel and Leo.

New research suggests that sun-like stars maintain a consistent rotation pattern throughout their lives, contrary to 50 years ...

A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin ...

She’s alive! Finally. When Maggie Gyllenhaal sat down to rewatch “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the 1935 James Whale classic, ...

We are granting one of our Awards for Best of MWC 2026 to Tecno’s Modular Phone concept for its ambitious "Modular Magnetic Interconnection Technology." ...

By cooling an atom-thin magnetic material, physicists have experimentally confirmed a classic 1970s model of two-dimensional ...