Quantum physics is often described as the most successful scientific framework in history. In its 100 years of existence, it has explained everything from the periodic table of the elements to how ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars.

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...