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

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

Discover how Ramanujan's century-old pi formulas connect to modern cosmology and turbulent fluid physics in groundbreaking ...

Warp drive has long lived in the realm of starships and scriptwriters, but the equations behind it are starting to look less ...

A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

Mrs. Mary Manchester, English instructor at the Saranac Lake High School, did a meticulous job on the 150-year history of ...

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

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Being on the surface of a sizable planet moving at high speed through space, spinning around a yellow star and on its axis, ...

New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

An elusive effect first envisioned by Einstein has been observed by scientists, once again vindicating the famed physicist's ...