A decades-old cosmic mystery has finally been cracked: the strange X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas are caused by ...

For more than 300 years, Isaac Newton's simple rule about gravity has held up: the farther apart two objects are, the weaker ...

A visually ambitious sci-fi adaptation, Project Hail Mary blends real physics with bold speculation - delivering a story that ...

Cosmic viewer The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile was used by the team to observe gravitational interactions between ...

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion ...

In the exotic world of particle physics, neutrinos may be the most mysterious members. They rarely interact with other matter ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new ...

For a half-century, scientists have investigated ways to solve the black hole information paradox—the idea that when black ...

A study of 300,000 galaxies confirms that gravity follows Newton's law and deepens the mystery of dark matter.

J. Colin Hill, an associate professor of physics, was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize ...