Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the first person to realise the abundance of hydrogen in the stars and the universe at large....

Meet the brilliant mathematician who gave us the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

It's a bird. It's a plane. No... it's Hollywood's bad physics.

Over 70 years as humanity has begun to explore space, we have upon occasion, turned our gaze back to our...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics honors research on the foundations of quantum mechanics, which opened up the quantum information...

The amazing story of how the Cosmic Microwave Background was discovered completely by accident by American scientists.

Although they can contain billions of stars, dwarf galaxies are nevertheless just a fraction of the size of Milky Way.

A decade after the discovery of the Higgs boson this ellusive particle is still delivering important science.

Four years ago astronomers discovered an unusual and powerful cosmic blast they nicknamed "the Cow." The mystery of what caused...

A journey through black holes from their violent exterior, light trapping event horizon, to a region where the laws of...

Images from the Event Horizon Telescope prove that the compact radio source at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius...

The Large Hadron Collider made history in 2012 by discovering the Higgs boson, now as it restarts, the search begins...

The asteroid 2021 PH27 is the closest asteroid to the Sun with a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead...

It's one of the smallest exoplanets found thus far

Thanks to NASA's InSight Mars mission we now have a good picture of the interior of another planet.

New research has shown that mountains on the surface of neutron stars could be millimetres tall.

Dark energy accounts for as much as 72% of the Universe's matter and energy content and drives the accelerating expansion...

You wait ages to spot a merger between a neutron star and a black hole and then the two come...

By directly measuring the mass of a protoplanetary disc, astronomers have begun to unravel the mystery of planet formation.

Astronomers are no longer in the dark about the dimming of Betegeuse.

A mysterious blinking giant star found at the heart of the Milky Way represents another example of a rare eclipsing...

A newly conducted in-depth cosmic census has revealed that star-forming molecular clouds come in an array of shapes and sizes.

Not only do gravitational waves represent the ultimate confirmation of the theory of General Relativity, they will provide us with...

The Dark Energy Survey has delivered its first results providing one of the most detailed pictures of the Universe ever...

A key ingredient of every living cell has been discovered in space, with an influence on theories of how life...

Astronomers have discovered iron and nickel vapour in the atmospheres of comets distant from the Sun and surrounding the interstellar...

The Standard Model is our best description of the subatomic world. Join ZME for a stroll through the particle zoo.

A pair of quasars closer together than any others previously observed could help researchers understand supermassive black hole binaries.

Black holes have firmly moved from the status of theoretical curiosity to physical reality. We follow that transformation and the...

The study of the untainted interstellar comet 2I/Borisov has allowed astronomers to compare material found in our solar system to...

The mass-energy equivalence is the crown jewel of special relativity, explaining the phenomena that power the stars, our homes, and...

A new image of M87's black hole in polarized light gives us a spectacular view of the powerful spacetime event.

Astronomers have measured Jupiter's Stratospheric Winds for the First Time.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have spotted GJ 1132 b, an extraordinary exoplanet where volcanic activity 'grew' an atmosphere.

Its source is a radio loud quasar blasting out jets when the universe was still in its infancy.

A newly discovered transiting exoplanet close to the solar system could be a prime target for atmospheric investigations, including the...

Einstein's theory of special relativity would revolutionise the field of physics upon its introduction. This is the first part of...

With a mass of 21 times that of the sun, the black hole of Cygnus X-1 challenges theories of stellar...

A massive stellar bulge found in a regularly rotating galaxy when the Universe was just 1.2 billion years old could...

The rhythmic movement of five of the six exoplanets around the star TOI-178 could challenge theories of planetary evolution.

The Trappist-1 exoplanets are comprised of similar materials to Earth but their lower density could indicate radically different worlds.

This year is set to be an important one for astronomy, cosmology and physics as researchers across these fields seek...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that is ejecting a massive amout of gas. The outburst could represent the end of...

The discovery of primordial black holes could answer a multitude of lingering questions such as the nature of dark matter,...

ZME Science delves into a timely Yuletide investigation of the science that enables Santa to deliver Christmas to millions of...

Despite the global pandemic that has brought much of the world to a grinding halt, space scientists have continued to...

Astronomers have discovered an exotic binary system consisting of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other.

The melting of ice beneath the surface of Mars could have made its deep regions the most habitable.

A tidal disruption in a distant galaxy could explain its lack of dark matter, to the relief of many physicists,...

For billions of years, Mars has had quite the leak.