From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

Time moves differently in space. Near black holes, gravity slows clocks and stretches seconds. This explainer reveals how time bends and affects astronauts and Earth.

Gravity, in the literal sense, keeps everyone (and everything) on Earth grounded. It acts as the anchor that prevents objects from floating skyward. For humans, it’s a leash that stops us from ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

That's the ethos behind Vaonis's Hestia. It's not a smart telescope, or even a normal telescope. Think of it as a lens to which you can attach your smartphone and, by using an app on your phone and ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

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

AI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope's archive to find strange celestial objects, including some ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

NASA still plans to conduct plenty of tests involving the suit, including parabolic flight, which can simulate the partial ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

From this perspective, the unnameable distress caused by home-listing images fabricated in a data center is likely less about ...