Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

Australia's education system has elevated climate change beyond question. Science is being treated as a 'moral truth'.

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

To answer Robertson: The Higgs field doesn’t appear to have more valleys to explore, according to our current understanding.

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have uncovered a new way these cosmic monsters unleash their power.

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle ...