Halfway through Space Is the Place, Sun Ra muses that scientists are fed on research while Black people have been fed on ...

On November 12, 2025, a ripple passed through the fabric of spacetime and triggered alarms at three gravitational-wave observatories across two continents. The signal, catalogued as S251112cm, was ...

What if the hardest part of warp drive was never bending spacetime, but finding matter that physics could actually tolerate?

In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If sufficient mass could be placed into an ...

Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

For more than 20 years, astronomers have been puzzled by a striking pattern of bright, evenly spaced stripes in the radio waves coming from the Crab ...

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...

Astronomers studying a distant superluminous supernova uncovered a strange pattern hidden in its light: a rapidly ...

Should the universe “choose” braneworld, it could mean that your senses (which perceive fewer dimensions) are keeping you ...