Compared to the drawn-out chirps of black hole binaries on decaying orbital spirals, it was a sharp crack. The best ...

Discover the physics behind stamps sticking to envelopes, from fundamental forces to Van der Waals interactions, explained concisely.

Physicists have found a way to redistribute uncertainty in quantum measurements, paving the way for ultra-sensitive ...

Located 12.8 billion light-years away, the black hole, called RACS J0320-35, weighs about a billion times the mass of our sun ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

Ripples in spacetime now give astronomy a second sense. The network listens to collisions, maps a low-frequency background ...

Our research team used the Huairou-1 satellite to analyze observational data from a special gamma-ray burst and discovered that the driving force behind this gamma-ray burst may be a newly formed ...

The filament structure of the universe is strikingly congruent, in a topological sense, to the axon-neuronic structure of the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...