The discovery of the double pulsar stunned scientists 🌌 Professor Brian Cox explains how this rare cosmic system confirmed ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

Most people think time speeds up because life gets busier. In reality, as adults, we begin to sleepwalk through life. The same routes, the same offices, the same conversations, the same gossip, the ...

At the Wits Digital Dome, Sjava reflects on 10 years of music by placing himself not above but among the stars that shaped ...

A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Its clarity allowed ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might rewrite gravity.

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Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

Time moves differently in space. Near black holes, gravity slows clocks and stretches seconds. This explainer reveals how time bends and affects astronauts and Earth.