Physics

What Matters

Einstein Was Right, Again: Antigravity Doesn’t Exist

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Hubble Telescope Just Captured Two Galaxies Colliding Into Each Other

ByKiona Smith
Science

Scientists Go Pink Diamond Hunting — And Find A Prehistoric Surprise

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Two Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear Bedazzled With Glittering Rings Of Gas

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Spot Rare Phenomenon That Einstein Predicted We'd Never See

ByKiona Smith
Cosmic Backyard

Twinkling Stars Might Hold The Key To Finding Alien Intelligence

ByCharles Q. Choi
space

New Map of Dark Matter Could Finally Solve a Cosmic Mystery

ByKiona Smith
space

A Black Hole is Ripping this Star Apart, One Planet-sized Bite at a Time

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Discover Oldest-Known Magnetic Field Around an Ancient Galaxy

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
space

Dead Stars Could Hold the Secrets of Dark Matter

ByKiona Smith
space

Look! JWST Captures a Close-Up of a Lopsided Galaxy

ByKiona Smith
space

Look! Hubble Captures a Glowing Star-Forming Cloud

ByKiona Smith
Science

Some Coral Reefs Could Weather Climate Change Better Than We Thought

ByLiam Lachs and The Conversation
Science

Futuristic Geoengineering Projects To Solve Climate Change Could Have Drastic Side Effects

ByDavid Kitchen and The Conversation
space

This Giant Star Creates Plasma Waves 3 Times Larger Than the Sun

ByKiona Smith
space

A Dramatic Collision In Space Created This Supergiant Star — And It Only Gets Weirder

ByKiona Smith
space

Astronomers Find An Impossibly Huge Exoplanet That Challenges Our Understanding of How Planets Form

ByKiona Smith
space

Physicists Figure Out a Novel Way to Let Sound Travel Through Space

ByKiona Smith
Science

Astronomers Are Tracking A "Failed Star" Before It Disappears Behind Its Dead Sun

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Aftermath of Saturn's Giant Storms Lasts for Centuries

ByKiona Smith
science

The Subatomic Particle Muon Seems to "Wobble" — This Odd Behavior Could Reveal New Physics

ByKiona Smith
space

Stunning! Webb Telescope Captures Image of a Messy Nearby Galaxy

ByKiona Smith
Space

ESA's Dark Matter Mission Just Hit a Critical Step to Begin Its Hunt

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
space

Aliens Could Build Massive Megastructures to Save Dying Stars

ByKiona Smith
Science

The Bizarrely Unbalanced Early Universe Might Explain Why We Exist

ByThe Conversation and Anne-Katherine Burns
space

Stars Have Massive "Waves" Of Their Own — and They Sound Beautiful

ByKiona Smith
science

Scientists Debunk the Scariest Scene in "Oppenheimer"

ByKiona Smith
space

Gasp! New Telescope Image Previews the Slow Death of the Sun

ByKiona Smith
Science

78 Years Ago, the First Nuclear Bomb Changed the World Forever — Here's Exactly How It Happened

ByThe Conversation and Daniel Cordle
space

Astronomers Discover a Weird Galaxy That Could Change What We Know About Physics

ByKiona Smith
space

Spooky X-Ray Aurora Discovered on Mercury

ByKiona Smith
Science

Scientists Discover How to Build a Terminator-style Self-Healing Metal

ByDarren Orf
space

Weirdly Long-Lived Radio Signal Hints at Undiscovered Astrophysics

ByKiona Smith
space

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals from a Failed Star

ByKiona Smith
Science

Who Will See the Northern Lights This Week? An Astrophysicist Reveals The Best Spots in the U.S.

ByElana Spivack
Space

Wild Astronomical Discovery Confirms Einstein Was Right About Time Itself

ByJon Kelvey
space

Scientists Just Heard the Hum of Giant Black Holes — Here's How They'll Pinpoint the Source

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Just Detected An Important High-Energy Particle In the Milky Way for the First Time

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
space

Astronomers Capture the Space-Squishing Echoes of Merging Supermassive Black Holes

ByKiona Smith
Space

ESA Euclid: What You Need to Know About This Dark Energy Mission

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Plasma “Chirps” on Both Earth and Mars — and Scientists May Finally Understand Why

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
science

Scientists X-ray a Single Atom for the First Time

ByKiona Smith
Space

Over 100 Years Later, Astronomers Finally Have a Clear View of Einstein's Wildest Theory

ByChad Hanna and The Conversation
space

A Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Went Supernova — and You Might Be Able to See It

ByKiona Smith
Clean Energy

Scientists Made An Artificial "Cloud" That Pulls Electricity From Air

ByMolly Glick
Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics Could Explain Nearly All the Mysteries of How Life Works

ByThe Conversation and Clarice D. Aiello
Check, Please

Why Vegan Cheese's Worst Quality May Be "Impossible" To Solve

ByElana Spivack
Science

Astronomers Use a Powerful Supernova to Potentially Solve a 60-Year-Old Question

ByKiona Smith
space

Scientists Spy a Supermassive Black Hole Adorned With the Shredded Remains of a Star

ByKiona Smith
Trailers

Einstein! The Real History Behind 'Oppenheimer's Most Unexpected Character

ByDais Johnston