Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Voyager 1 is one of humanity’s most poignant and remarkable ...

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes ...

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light-day from Earth, so far away that its radio messages will take roughly 24 ...

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As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the biggest science stories of the year, and why they matter.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What astronomers initially suspected to be a new exoplanet is ...

Scientists have beamed a laser into the sky, which is visible from miles around. The spectacle, known as The Beam, marks the ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are rotating in sync with the filament. When you purchase through links on our ...

Even before its full science operations have begun, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has already helped astronomers find something remarkable. The observatory's first images, revealed in June, ...

A pillar of light illuminated the sky in Oxfordshire as part of a birthday celebration for Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as a light-day. It'll take Voyager 1, the American spacecraft moving at 10.6 miles per second, more than 49 years ...