The research paper reports a breakthrough that will enable gravitational-wave detectors to reach extreme laser powers. It ...

How did the great modern scientific adventure related to the discovery and study of celestial bodies and the cosmos begin?

In the vast and enigmatic realm of quantum mechanics, where the rules of classical physics give way to probabilities and ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Throughout human history, our understanding of the universe has undergone significant changes. From ancient times, people saw Earth as the cosmic center. The Copernican revolution displaced us from ...

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the ...

They published their study in the journal Physical Review Letters, which also earned a 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize. To get that extra information, the team didn't bolster the existing standard ...

Does time always flow in one direction? This perplexing question has captivated philosophers and scientists for centuries, ...

Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility ...

As a global community of artists, we can learn to be more sensitive to the needs of Indigenous artists and communities, but it means adopting a willingness to move beyond escapism towards an aware and ...

A study reveals that in the microscopic realm of atoms and subatomic particles the equations describing their behavior remain ...