A groundbreaking new study suggests that super-Earth exoplanets—rocky planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune—may ...

Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

Albert Einstein was an exceptional scientist but also a highly unconventional thinker whose life defied academic norms. In ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy.

The physique that changed the concepts of space and of time with the theory of relativity and the famous AND=MC2Nobel ...

Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of ...

The European Space Agency has launched two atomic clocks on a SpaceX rocket to the ISS to test Einstein's theory of ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...