Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

The idea that a hidden fourth dimension could be woven into everyday reality is no longer just a science‑fiction trope.

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse offered the only chance to test Albert Einstein's radical new theory of gravity, General ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet's intricate timekeeping system, ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum ...