For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational ...

The curious minds at What If examine overwriting Einstein’s theory of relativity with time travel, imagining paradoxes, ...

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Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...