Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

A spacecraft traveling at 99 percent the speed of light toward Alpha Centauri would cross 4.3 light-years in what feels like ...

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

Black hole GW190412 has been caught speeding away from its birth site at about 112,000 miles per hour (180,000 kilometers per ...

Explore how Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe with groundbreaking theories like relativity and ...

Theoretical physicists have spent decades wrestling with a disorienting possibility: that the flow of time is not woven into ...

Hollywood has never been known for its strict adherence to science. In most blockbusters the laws of physics are treated more ...