Pune: Jayant Narlikar's legacy should be a chapter in textbooks to inspire young scientists, said Raghunath Mashelkar, ...

Either we are uncovering something entirely new, or we’re seeing a known type of object emitting radio and X-ray waves in a ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave's complete journey from ...

On May 29, 1919, a total solar eclipse helped to prove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory ...

Stranded in space for 256 days, astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams faced unexpected health challenges upon ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

The speed of light was a mystery for millennia, a fugitive constant that escaped measurement and understanding. Now among the ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

Black holes continue to grip our imagination. These cosmic powerhouses twist space and time so intensely that even light ...

A new publication introduces the rapidly growing field of multi-messenger gravitational lensing, which combines ...