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Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after the Big Bang

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.

The puzzle Einstein and Rosen were addressing was never about space travel, but about how quantum fields behave in curved spacetime. I

History is packed with captivating stories, but not all of them make it into textbooks or newspaper headlines. Usually, only the biggest moments get the spotlight, while the lesser-known ones quietly fade away with time—which is a real shame, because they’re often just as interesting. Thankfully, the Instagram page Rare…

A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black hole.

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes formed without stars.

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 we die, in exactly that order. We plan our lives around time, measure it obsessively and experience…

Meta scientist Zifan Wang announced on X that he would be moving out of the US after seven years, including his years of study and work, as his visa was not stamped for re-entry. The incident drew huge backlash as the Donald Trump administration has taken a hard stand against…

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun.

You get smart. Then you get uncomfortably smart. That rare, off-the-charts, stop-everyone-in-their-tracks type of intelligence that is both a wonder and a ‘WTH?!’ to witness. From a guy who struggled to read but taught himself college chemistry from a textbook in one evening, to a child with an intellectual disability…