Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Detected the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There
The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in. ..
The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in. ..
In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores. ..
Images from the European Space Agency’s newest telescope show the power of instruments that will create 3D surveys of a third of the sky, covering 10 billion ..
Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance ..
The solar corona is hotter than expected, and scientists are using European Space Agency and NASA spacecraft to figure out why. ..
The European Space Agency’s new orbiting observatory will scan billions of galaxies for clues about the universe’s expansion. ..
A globe-spanning group of physicists used pulsars to measure the waves, which they believe emanated from pairs of supermassive black holes. ..
A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind solar flares and other astrophysical jets. ..
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed. ..
In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But in higher dimensions, an infinite number of configurations are possible. ..