The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

Scientists may have "seen" dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this ...

The two stars in the nearby system ZTF J2130 are spiraling toward a catastrophic supernova. In the meantime, scientists are ...

In the world of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking’s predictions about black holes have always sparked fascination and debate.

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

As physicists search for a theory of quantum gravity, new results show that classical gravity can still interact with quantum fields to allow matter to become entangled. A new discovery suggests ...

Pluto imparted a slight but measurable alteration to the New Horizons spacecraft's trajectory (both bending and acceleration) during its 2015 flyby. The minimal nature of this trajectory change was ...

Did you know that moving a clock one inch toward the ground would result in a slower tick compared to the same clock positioned higher up? Gravity doesn't just pull things; it also bends time.

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