The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

The fabric of spacetime may be frothing with gigantic gravitational waves, and the possibility has sent physicists into a tizzy. A potential signal seen in the light from dead stellar cores known as ...

New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters ...

New observations of a far-flung galaxy cluster have left a group of scientists stumped as they ponder whether they’ve discovered a new form of physics. In their new paper, researchers Tessa Vernstrom ...

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The clash of two galaxy clusters in Abell 2146 is teaching astronomers about the kinds of "collisionless" shock waves that occur in our own solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Gravitational waves from a neutron star collision. (Courtesy: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab) Simulations by an international team of researchers have shown that new measurements of ...

The Milky Way is shaping up to be a very dangerous place for travel. New research finds our cosmic neighborhood is dotted with black holes. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...

Announced by the LIGO collaboration in February 2016, the discovery of ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves was momentous enough to merit the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Now, another ...