The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

We finally know what will happen when two suns collide with each other outside ... is unable to withstand its gravity, and explodes. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, is the first ...

Venus and Jupiter, bracketing the sun ... be affected by gravity. The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace even proposed, in 1795, that gravity could be strong enough to pull light into ...

Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into such a tiny point gives black holes their powerful gravitational pull. Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk ...

The difference this time is that two stupendously precise detectors ... yet in familiar contexts like the gravitational pull of the Sun or Earth, Einstein’s predictions barely differ from ...