Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

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Being an astronaut who works on the International Space Station is likely a fun job, but there are a few things us on Earth ...

Art Museum’s recent installation of Sarah Sze’s “Sleepers” is good news in two ways that might matter to art fans.

“A lot of [the abuse] was far-right white males threatening me, saying, ‘I’ll change my opinion when I get raped’ or that ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

But Luis Jauregui’s work, which might power quantum computers needed for long-range space exploration, also shows how basic ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...