A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Here’s a mind-blowing thought: what if our entire universe is actually inside a black hole? Some scientists think it’s ...

Scientists detect the strongest gravitational wave ever, supporting Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s black hole area law ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

Two black holes merged together 2.4 billion light years away from Earth, and scientists have just figured out how fast the newborn ricocheted, and in which direction.

Science explains the world with numbers and experiments, while astrology speaks through stars and symbols. One seeks proof; ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

One of my closest friends is a neuroscientist, investigating how brain cells develop and how they search for and choose other brain cells to connect with. Her research can sound intimidating, but when ...

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

About 13.8 billion years ago, the newborn universe was a blazing sea of energy and particles. Within minutes of the Big Bang, conditions had cooled enough for the very first atoms—mostly hydrogen, ...

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems. The macroscopic realm, which consists of everything from falling balls to orbiting planets, can be explained by ...