Move over, Einstein, an AI named Urania is outsmarting scientists by inventing radical new detectors, promising to transform our hunt for the universe’s most elusive ripples. Research: Digital ...

A new cosmic model suggests that singularities could briefly pop into existence, spewing matter and energy into the cosmos, negating the need for dark energy and dark matter.

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, ...

Understanding gravity's influence on qubits reveals challenges in decoherence and potential for new quantum technologies and precision sensing applications.

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.

Your head is actually aging faster than the rest of you. Before you freak out, though, know that it’s only by nanoseconds—90 ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...