A group of astronomers has uncovered a rare celestial configuration that’s rewriting what we know about how dark matter shapes the universe. Hidden inside a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein Cross, ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity reshaped our understanding of time space and gravity But deep inside its equations lies a mystery the one Einstein never predicted a hole that could change how physics ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

Periodically, the European Space Agency (ESA) releases images that provide breathtaking views of the cosmos, courtesy of its ...

A strong contender is wavelet theory, a mathematical framework that powers image and video compression across the digital ...

Nobel Laureate in Physics Professor Serge Haroche is among dozens of world-renowned scientists attending the international ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) report that an exotic quantum phenomenon appears under conditions where it would not normally ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...