For weeks, social feeds have been flooded with breathless warnings that Earth will briefly “turn off” gravity for seven ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star ...

Black holes are already the most dangerous objects known to physics, but an advanced civilization might learn to use them ...

The second paper, "Fermion Chirality from Non-Bipartite Topology," applies this same lattice geometry to the quantum world. It proposes that the "handedness" (chirality) of subatomic particles is not ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

Optical atomic clocks are 100 times more precise than cesium clocks. Scientists are using them to search for dark matter and measure gravity.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Some physicists believe that a fifth fundamental force could be the cause of some observational anomalies. A study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented ...