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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Using a set of ground-based radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers has observed a slowly-spinning pulsar ...

In the quantum world, observing a particle is not a passive act. If you shine light on a quantum object to measure its ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters ...