Finally, scientists have their finger on the pulse. Spinning dead stars, known as pulsars, blast powerful beams of radio waves into space. As a pulsar spins, its beams sweep past Earth, producing a ...

The only known duo of pulsars has just revealed a one-of-a-kind heap of cosmic insights. For over 16 years, scientists have been observing the pair of pulsars, neutron stars that appear to pulsate.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. General relativity has withstood perhaps its toughest challenge to date. The theory, which Albert ...

For the first time, a group of physicists has written down a warp drive concept that does not ask the universe for impossible ...

A team of physicists with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology has calculated more precisely how much faster time passes on the moon than on the Earth. The paper ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At least 3,700 years ago, Babylonian mathematicians approximated the ratio of a circle's ...

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Long and winding road: The Juice space probe taking the long way to Jupiter and its moons - Copyright NASA/AFP/File NASA Long and winding road: The Juice space probe ...

An artist's visualization of the star S0-2 as it passes by the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. As the star gets closer to the supermassive black hole, it experiences a gravitational ...

The cornerstone of physics is the universality of the laws of nature. From your back garden to far-away galaxies, everything moves, shakes, and shines according to the same principles. Obviously, we ...

Papers related to the first detection of gravitational waves announced earlier this year were presented by a team of RIT scientists at the International Conference on General Relativity and ...