A brief, ten second flash from the distant universe has just become one of the most intriguing signals humanity has ever ...
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...
Most appear briefly, are catalogued, and then fade into the growing archive of cosmic events. But every so often, something arrives that refuses to fit existing patterns. Earlier this year, one such ...
This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...