For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge ...

Violent collisions between young worlds have turned a nearby planetary system into a sprawling construction site of dust and ...

A scientific experiment aimed at detecting dark matter in space launched from Antarctica on December 15, with significant ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

The two stars in the nearby system ZTF J2130 are spiraling toward a catastrophic supernova. In the meantime, scientists are using the pair's slow orbital decay to put Einstein's theory of gravity to ...

Earlier this autumn I had the pleasure of visiting the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo Canada – where I interviewed four physicists about their research. This is the second of ...

Windfall lesson We intuitively learn the basics of gravity from observing things falling, like apples from trees. But there is a lot more to the subject than Isaac Newton and black holes. (Courtesy: ...

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