The fabric of spacetime can be distorted by immense gravity, and black holes show the most extreme version of this, where ...

Between 29 June and 9 July 2025, LHC physicists pushed the study of the quark–gluon plasma into new territory.

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

When NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft began photographing Mercury, scientists expected a quiet, lifeless world. Instead, the ...

Richie Gray, aka the Collision King, is using a cerebral approach to think about how players hit each other—and making the ...

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

At least one space launch has been put on hold, as satellite operators and rocket companies manage the effects of the current ...

In lead collisions at the LHC, some of the strongest electromagnetic fields in the universe bombard the inside of the beam ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287. Roughly twice every 12 years, from 3.5 billion light years away, the light ...

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first magneto-optical ...