Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.

A new Big Bang model does away with speculative elements, putting gravitational waves at the forefront of the creation of ...

Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also ...

In a remarkable new study featured in Physical Review Letters, scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have ...

The latest breakthrough announced today, which tests an idea put forth by Stephen Hawking in 1971, would not have been ...

The star at the center of the solar system does more than provide light and warmth. It also acts as the most powerful particle accelerator in the neighborhood, whipping electrons to near-light speed ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a groundbreaking discovery of a completely new type of plasma wave embedded in the auroras near Jupiter's poles, as published in the ...

A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed ...

Microplastics are flooding the Gulf of Mexico, threatening marine life and seafood security, new research shows.