The English physicist was diagnosed with ALS at age 21 and managed to live 55 years longer than science predicted.

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity has explained the universe for more than a century. But under certain conditions, cracks begin to appear. Physicists have identified a gap Einstein never had the tools ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

A physicist challenges the idea of wormholes as space tunnels, proposing they act as time mirrors linking opposite temporal directions.

Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

Of the thousands of single-star systems in our galaxy, around 10% are known to have planets. Scientists thus expected about ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

The two Rutgers scholars—Maxime Van de Moortel from Rutgers-New Brunswick and Demyan Prokopchuk from Rutgers-Newark—are among 126 young scientists from across the U.S. and Canada selected this year.

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...