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.

To most of us, time feels as solid as the phone alarm that drags us out of bed or the calendar that fills up faster than we ...

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

The Dark Energy Survey catalogued 669 million galaxies, using 140 million for precise measurements to help understand why the universe's expansion is accelerating rather than slowing down.

Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed ...

A new theory suggests gravity could possibly be the result of entropy—which would mean everything in the universe would fall ...

If the universe was a soundtrack, we have been humming it our whole life. Every atom in our body, every star in the sky, every beam of light is part of a piece of music that never stops playing.

ABSTRACT: Moving electrically charged particles create a spiraling magnetic field around them according to Maxwell’s equation, and each hadron containing fractionally charged quarks will be filled ...

Black holes are usually described as regions where gravity becomes so strong that nothing can escape, formed when massive stars collapse beyond a critical threshold. While this is the standard picture ...

Fr. Gabriele Gionti, S.J., and Fr. Matteo Galaverni continue to produce new mathematical insights into Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (that treats gravity as a warping of space and ...

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...