A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...

Distant quasars may hold the key to spotting elusive gravitational waves—and revealing hidden dimensions of the universe.

A landmark study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modelling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of black holes ...

International team calculates observable quantities such as scattering angle and emitted energy with unrivalled precision.

Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America's hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the ...

Finding out whether gravity – and therefore space-time itself – is quantum in nature has long been thought impossible. But ...

To improve photonic and electronic circuitry used in semiconductor chips and fiber optic systems, researchers at the McKelvey ...

The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

Galactic megacollision: A visible-light and X-ray composite image of the Bullet cluster 1E 0657-556, which formed after the ...