What if gravity repelled instead of attracted? This video explores how repulsive gravity could have shaped the history of the ...

Albert Einstein is more than just a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed the theory of relativity and formula E=mc2.

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Sci-fi movies always take us to new worlds or focus on mind-bending concepts based in science. But these sci-fi movies were ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

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

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...