These bursts, or “transient temporal singularities,” might explain why the universe is expanding without needing mysterious ...

The idea of time travel—moving forward or backward through time—has captured human curiosity for generations. In tandem, the ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...

Physicists are finalizing plans for MATHUSLA, a powerful new addition to CERN's Large Hadron Collider that will detect ...

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

"The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience—the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and people—is a hologram, an image of reality coded on a distant ...

In a study published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which is a part of The University of Alabama ...

New insights into the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres indicates planet-wide rainfall might take place following hydrogen ...

Levitating and spinning diamonds might sound like science fiction, but they’re now part of a bold effort to study the ...

Physicists think the insides of black holes may be complex mazes of tangled strings in higher dimensions Black holes, the ...