For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Scientists test the famous physicist’s predictions by calculating the distortion of time and space. Why is the expansion of ...

Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, ...

It’s the largest telescope in the world, using 27 individual antenna to listen to the deep universe ... the brightness and apparent size of distant objects like planets, moons, and galaxies.

We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest ... wildly in size. In combination ...

“In 10 years, we’re going to be talking about new fields of science, new classes of objects ... to the largest, mapping the distribution of dark matter across the universe.

The second largest radio telescope dishes in the ... The name stuck, and so I had the honor of naming one deep-sky object in a universe filled with thousands of good targets.

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

It is the most powerful outburst from the city-size oddball ... city-size object appear almost 300 times brighter than normal, researchers say. The latest outbursts, which are the largest in ...