It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Rob Reiner spoke to comedian Eric Idle hours before the director and his wife were killed inside their Los Angeles home. Idle, 82, revealed details about the pair’s final conversation on Monday ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

A brilliant point of light is rising in the eastern sky soon after dark this month, drawing comparisons to the "Star of Bethlehem." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Earlier this year, Disney announced it would bring the original Star Wars film, later dubbed Episode IV: A New Hope, back to theaters for the film's 50th anniversary in 2027. But it looks like we'll ...

Astronomers have long sought a cosmic explanation for the Bible’s Star of Bethlehem, the shining celestial object that, so the story goes, guided the wise men, or magi, from Jerusalem to greet the ...

5 Seconds of Summer have announced a massive 2026 world tour in support of their upcoming album Everyone’s a Star! The trek will begin in Europe in March 2026 before reaching North America in late May ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

How does an escaped python make it the approximately 40 miles from her home in San Bernardino to the newly opened Monrovia In-N-Out location? The Pasadena Humane Society still isn’t sure. On Monday, ...

Abstract: Currently, the latest research on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) focuses on several types of applications, given the progress in microelectronics and telecommunication. One of the most ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

The moon-planet-star trio are among the brightest objects in our solar system, meaning the impending conjunction should be incredibly easy to spot. A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at ...