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CCA Visiting Scholar Samuel Grunblatt discusses new images taken from NASA's TESS mission showing three Jupiter-sized planets slated for destruction by their own stars.

Simons Foundation President and astrophysicist David Spergel discusses the benefits of stepping outside your comfort zone.

The quantum revolution upended our understanding of nature, and a lot of uncertainty remains

Researchers have imaged the long-sought electron charge distribution of a halogen atom, with the picture resembling the bright ring-like structure that surrounds a black hole.

Simulations suggest how a mysterious outburst of light has endured for 85 years.

Megan Bedell, a researcher at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, weighs in on the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Days from now, the James Webb Space Telescope will launch and unfold a whole new view of the cosmos.

It’s hard enough to predict the outcome of ball collisions in a game of billiards. Do you also have to factor in a player’s effect on the cue ball?

After a decade of work, researchers have achieved the first ever experimental reconstruction of a quantum wave function.

Variational quantum algorithms could help researchers improve the performance of optical atomic clocks and of other quantum-metrology schemes.