"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

(Image credit: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon)/LVK/URI) ...

A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision ...

The blackboard, used by the physicist during a University of Nottingham guest lecture, is said to be one of only three ...

An eon ago, when only microbes dwelled on Earth, a pair of black holes some 1.3 billion light-years beyond the solar system ...

Ten years after the first gravitational waves were detected, the location and design for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector are being decided ...

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square ...

November 1919: Members of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society convened in London to discuss the results of observations of a recent solar eclipse. They were searching for something ...

PITTSBURGH—During his 60 years in general relativity, the field of physics established by Albert Einstein, University of Pittsburgh Professor Emeritus of physics and astronomy Ezra T. Newman not only ...

When a German physicist returned from a health retreat 100 years ago, his ideas sparked a debate about reality, and gave rise to quantum mechanics — the "spooky" science of the very small.

Three letters written by Albert Einstein in 1945 are up for auction and offer an intriguing glimpse into the renowned physicist's criticisms of how scientists were interpreting physics at the quantum ...

Albert Einstein’s work so revolutionized physics that it is difficult to discuss him without slipping into hagiography. Indeed, his brilliance is so storied that his surname has become synonymous with ...