Elias Voss

For the first time, astronomers assembled a complete before-and-after record of a star collapsing directly into a black hole — and the mechanism behind the silence turns out to be stranger than a supernova.

The White House is finalizing a pre-release review framework for the most powerful AI models ever built — and the benchmarks that determine who qualifies are secret.

In November 2026, a 1970s spacecraft will pass a threshold so remote that the physics of light itself becomes the only useful ruler.

GRB 250702B lasted nearly twice as long as any gamma-ray burst ever recorded, and the two leading explanations for it are mutually incompatible — which means at least one of them has to be wrong.

New EEG research reveals that using an LLM to think doesn't just change your output — it changes the electrical activity in your brain in real time, and the pattern isn't what productivity culture promised.

ESA's Proba-3 mission flies two spacecraft in lockstep formation to block the sun on demand — unlocking a continuous view of the solar corona that has defeated astronomers for a century.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever confirmed to have crossed into our solar system from another star — and unlike the first two, we had an entire fleet waiting for it.

A new study put a number on the ocean's heat surplus that makes annual energy statistics look like pocket change — and the rate is still climbing.

A model trained on human error rather than human perfection has forced researchers to ask an uncomfortable question: do we actually know what thinking is?

A Jupiter-mass planet orbiting a millisecond pulsar carries a helium-and-carbon atmosphere that no known formation pathway can produce — and the physics of what falls from its sky is stranger still.

Machine learning systems are pulling gravitational lenses out of archival survey images that human eyes passed over for years — and what they're finding is quietly rewriting the dark matter distribution maps cosmologists thought they'd already built.

Fast radio bursts arrive from across the universe in under a millisecond — brilliant, violent, and until recently, assumed to be unrepeatable. A handful of them have since proved that assumption wrong, and the physics debate that followed is far from over.

When a magnetar erupts, it releases staggering energy in an instant — but the faint oscillations buried inside those bursts are the real discovery, and they point straight to what nuclear matter does under pressure nothing on Earth can replicate.

The most common world in the galaxy sits in a size range our solar system completely skipped — and planetary scientists aren't sure whether that's physics or blind spot.