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Yuri Levin, CCA's leader of the Compact Objects group, writes with two others to explain how the search came together and the meaning of the chirp heard around the world.

Each Nobel award is limited to three individuals. But now that teams drive high-impact science, the Nobel Foundation should change how it awards its prize.

This collection of resources explores the physics of quantum materials, their discovery and development, the control over their properties and possible applications.

Although figures are improving, physics and astronomy still suffer some of the worst gender imbalances among STEM fields in the United States. The Women in Physics & Astronomy initiative of the Heising-Simons Foundation aims to change that.

Experiment traces how online encyclopedia influences research write-ups.

As research and editorial processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks.

A sun-like star seems to have devoured some of its own planetary offspring, prompting researchers to nickname it after the titan Kronos from Greek mythology.

A day in the life of Princeton grad student Heather Prince, who spent time this summer at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics during hack week.

Observations and modeling suggest TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets may have held onto water, billions of years after their formation.

Three scientists explain how their work, which took four years and 100,000 worms, led to surprising discoveries about reproducibility.