Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

After watching that, I joked with a friend that the gravity we feel every day is actually a result of space-time being ...

Ten events that would unfold if gravity suddenly vanished, beginning with the effects on our bodies and ending with the ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged together.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

US Naval Research Laboratory scientists have successfully trained an Astrobee zero-gravity robot to fly in space without human interference.

Cooper and his crew's arrival on Miller's planet is one of the most pivotal and jarring moments in Interstellar. In pursuit of finding an exoplanet capable of supporting human life, Cooper and his ...

Astronaut and space industry leader Tom Marshburn explains how commercial space flight, AI, and new approaches to medicine ...

We can never 100% prove that the constants really are constant. There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from?