Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Nonlocal correlations that define quantum entanglement could be reconciled with Einstein’s theory of relativity if space–time had two temporal dimensions. That is the implication of new theoretical ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

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

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...