When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn’t always add up. Fad diets come and ...

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to ...

Physicists isolated the ‘last sound’ of a black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region right next ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the greatest scientific minds ...

NOVA tells the inside story of Einstein’s masterpiece. The story begins with the intuitive thought experiments that set Einstein off on his quest and traces the revolution in cosmology that is still ...

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

On June 29, after almost 18 years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was shut down in its current iteration for the ...

Thanks to the Event Horion Telescope, we now know black holes exist, but a new study published recently in Physical Review D ...

A LONG TIME ago, in a galaxy far, far away—somewhere in the general direction of the constellation of Leo—two black holes ...

One foundational part of astrophysics concerns how stellar mass black holes form. When a star several times more massive than ...