A supernova’s changing rhythm offers evidence of a hidden magnetar, while companion observations reveal surrounding-gas ...

Einstein's theory of relativity just got put to the test by the lightest binary neutron star system ever discovered.

A series that introduces the differences between the "widely known image" and the "actual person" by comparing multiple materials.The second installment is Albert Einstein.Explosive white hair. The ...

Why do clocks run at different speeds on the ground and in space? Why do distant galaxies sometimes appear as beautiful rings ...

Physicists have discovered evidence of how spacetime operates within a set of “hidden” laws that preserve some form of ...

Time travel to the future is possible, notes Neil deGrasse Tyson. Explore evidence, practical limits, and why the past ...

An amateur astronomer’s ingenious solution to a problem in his backyard attracted the attention of scientists and left a ...

Some supermassive black holes rapidly consume surrounding matter while simultaneously firing powerful streams of plasma into ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes gravity as the bending of spacetime, a mathematical model that combines ...

Quantum mechanics, which recently turned 100 years old, ranks as the most successful theory in the history of physics. Yet on a fundamental level, we still don't understand what quantum mechanics is ...

The first measurement of a chemical bond in a superheavy element compound shows that relativistic effects weaken the seaborgium-carbonyl bond, inverting the trend seen in lighter homologs.

Harvard mathematicians are divided over how far artificial intelligence should go in their field, as OpenAI’s announcement of an AI-generated solution to a decades-old math problem raises questions ...