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

"These equations are extremely successful ... ripples in space-time called gravitational waves allows astronomers to observe much stronger gravitational fields than ever before. This gives scientists ...

In 1862, James Clerk Maxwell published his famous Maxwell’s equations. This was at a time when humans were just starting to ...

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

I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the discovery of quantum mechanics in 1925 that we celebrate here. So I’ll ...

Before Einstein, special relativity, and E = mc2, what was the prevailing theory on the Sun's seemingly eternal energy?

This year, the scientific community is celebrating the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, which changed our ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration that maps the universe's 3D large-scale structure by measuring redshifts of tens of millions of celestial ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through the Earth's atmosphere, and landing in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between ...