Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

In its wake, a new supermassive black hole formed over 60 times bigger than our Sun. Fast forward to September 2015, ...

Astronomers used gravitational lensing to detect a supernova 10 billion light-years away, providing spatially separated images that help study cosmic expansion and early Universe events.

You can take a scale model to Zhejiang University, where the CHIEF1900 gravitational centrifuge can batter it with 300 times ...

In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space. Waves that originated in the early universe could carry important information about the phenomena that occurred there. When you purchase through ...

Putting the squeeze on light improves gravitational wave observatories. An upgrade to one such observatory, LIGO, that comes from exploiting a quantum rule known as the Heisenberg uncertainty ...

Astrophysicists describe what galaxy-wide gravitational waves could mean for our understanding of black holes and the history of the cosmos. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In a moment over 100 years in the making, the 2017 Nobel Prize in ...

Note: On October 3, 2017, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, three pioneers in the study of ...