Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

Researchers say they discovered observational evidence of string theory, which could turn everything we know about the ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

For decades, astronomers have known something didn’t add up in our universe. The amount of “normal” matter—stars, gas, and ...

A few days ago, a new press release announced groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI), which is installed on the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. This vast survey ...

The island of Puerto Rico is suffering another islandwide power outage, just months after a dayslong blackout on New Year's ...

The power outage began shortly before 1 p.m. local time, and all of the company’s 1.4 million customers were left without ...