Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

In a world where supercars casually claim 0–60 times that once belonged to race machines, the McLaren 720S still feels like ...

Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

In December 2015, plasma was ignited for the first time in Wendelstein 7-X. Various records were set in the fusion research ...

Later work by others built on this, showing that these energy levels are a fundamental part of how the universe works at the ...