Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date.

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse offered the only chance to test Albert Einstein's radical new theory of gravity, General ...

Confirmed by an eclipse, Einstein's theory of gravity revealed a spectacular tool: gravitational lensing. This video explains how massive galaxies warp spacetime to act as natural cosmic telescopes, ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have developed revolutionary and full-scale prototype instrumentation FROSTI, also ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Scientists say that Mars may need its own time zone as they calculate that clocks on the red planet will tick 477 ...

Recently, Pune researchers found a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way from the early universe. What is the striking ...