Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

The extrasolar planet or " exoplanet " in question is TOI-2109b, which has five times the mass of Jupiter and is located ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research. Gravitational waves were predicted by ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse allowed scientists to confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity by observing how the sun’s gravity bent starlight. This discovery revolutionized physics and made ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...