Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...

The second reason is simple: location, location, location! The millisecond pulsar appears to be near Sagittarius A*, the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Time may not be a fundamental element of the universe but rather an illusion ...

For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational ...

A bizarre "cosmic glitch" in the theory of how the gravity of the universe works may have been mended. The strange glitch in Einstein's description of gravity in his theory of general relativity may ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

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 ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other. Quantum theory governs particles and fields, while Einstein’s gravity describes ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article unpacks why the Nobel committee hesitated: Alfred Nobel’s rules, distrust of ...