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

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Mind = blown.

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

Quote of the day: Though widely celebrated for reshaping modern physics, Einstein’s impact reached well beyond laboratories ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

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 ...

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

Nobel prize winner Albert Einstein had deep, insightful, yet simple analogies about life and how this one thing is the key to the progress.

This is where Emmy Noether, a groundbreaking German mathematician, comes into the picture. She found a breathtakingly simple ...