Two researchers have found an explanation for why we find almost no exoplanets orbiting binary stars. According to them, ...

Nearly 40 years after Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Sarah Alam Malik's epic exploration of the cosmos reflects a ...

Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysica | Space ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

To most of us, time feels as solid as the phone alarm that drags us out of bed or the calendar that fills up faster than we ...

For a long time, black holes were seen as mathematical curiosities lacking solid observational proof. This viewpoint changed ...

Scientists pushed photons across the universe to test the speed of light—and found Einstein’s cosmic speed limit still holds ...

Most physicists doubt that time exists. On this page 40 years ago, we published scientific ‘proof’ of time being illusory. We pointed out that none of the equations of physics, from Newton’s laws to ...

For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational ...