Gravity is normal on Earth, but out there it plays a deeper role. If a cosmic body is massive enough, it could bend the ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

The nodes in a quantum network don’t necessarily have to be computers; they can also be atomic clocks. The cesium atoms that ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave astronomy. The international research team has detected the most massive merger ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

Researchers are using machine learning, symbolic regression, and high-performance computing to explore and classify string ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...