A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

A new theoretical framework shows that tidal forces in inspiraling neutron star pairs can be described through oscillation modes, opening a new path to studying ultra-dense matter using gravitational ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, astronauts land on a planet orbiting close to a black hole. They spend a few hours on its surface. When they retu.

A team of scientists have found a massive "gravity hole" in the historically mysterious and frozen continent of Antarctica. The question is, what is causing it?

We are closer to living on another planet than ever before.

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

When black holes collide, the crash generates ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves. Thanks to a global network of observatories—called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

The results reveal that our universe is reverberating with cosmic collisions. Some of the waves stem from pairs of black ...

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves ...