Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

GPS navigation systems, for example, rely on Einstein's theories to account for the effects of gravity on time, ensuring accurate location tracking. The theory of relativity also paved the way for ...

The basic principle they employ from logic and information theory proves that there ... Newton’s simple laws were replaced ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a ‘dark object’ concealed within a warped ‘Einstein ring’ located 10 ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

Researchers suggest gravitational waves, not cosmic inflation, may have driven the universe’s formation. This model links ...