The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the ...

Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. Initially, scientists expected LIGO might detect just a few of these collisions. But now, nearing the first detection’s 10th anniversary, we have ...

Scientists detect Alfvén waves twisting in the Sun’s corona Waves may explain the corona’s million-degree heat Observation made using the Inouye Solar Telescope ...

In the 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves, we have detected hundreds of these waves produced by the ...

As the daughter of firefighters in Southern California, Gabby Kitch grew up with a strong sense of how public service can help preserve and protect the world — with water. In her career she just opted ...

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Chlorophyll breaks down, revealing the yellow pigment that was there all along. But red? Red is a different story altogether.