In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different from how it does today. Back then, the region in our ...

You can watch how these galaxies coalesced over time and formed the familiar spiral disk we see today, thanks to a new set of ...

In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT. Thoroughly intimidated, I decided to just ignore it. But I couldn’t ...

For most of human history, we’ve explored the cosmos with just one sense — sight. Every telescope ever built, from Galileo’s primitive tube to the mighty James Webb Space Telescope, has captured light ...

Variations in day length that occur on multidecadal timescales are caused by gravitational coupling between Earth’s inner core and its solid mantle. Read the paper: Gravitational torque drives ...

YouTuber RedLogic left a Minecraft world to fend for itself for nearly 2 billion simulated years, and somehow its mobs rolled the credits on their own. That’s already more composure than some far ...

A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpectedly from another leading result, deepening a 225-year-old physics puzzle. The ...

Scientists have found a new way to create a controlled beam of muonium, an exotic atom containing a heavier cousin of the electron. The advance could allow researchers to test for the first time ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Police and military training is rigorous. But until now, there has been no way to recreate one of the most critical moments in a real gunfight: you're hit, and your shooting arm is ...

Does gravity act equally on all particles in the universe, or are there differences between ordinary and exotic matter? Physics professor Anna Soter and her team at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer ...