Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as plausible as finding a unicorn in a particle accelerator. But in a series of ...

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe.

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined ...

You can only watch so many fireworks, even in the nation’s cradle of liberty. At some point you’re gonna want to switch to TV ...

Researchers created a machine vision sensor that uses quantum dots to adapt to extreme changes in light far faster than the ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

In blinding bright light or pitch-black dark, our eyes can adjust to extreme lighting conditions within a few minutes. The ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

The Universal Frame Model provides a novel framework for exploring and addressing a number of unresolved paradoxes in physics, without dark matter or dark energy, offering tools with the potential to ...

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

The first direct search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particle has been conducted, according to ...