In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

U-tube: the glass tube and piezoelectric speaker that were used to create the new mass sensor. (Courtesy: William Grover) A $12 device that can measure the mass of microgram-sized objects in fluid has ...

In 1915 Einstein came up with his theory of relativity which tells us that massive objects warp space. Four years later British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington was able to prove this theory true by ...

So, where is the anomaly? According to Loeb, the mystery is why we haven't spotted many more interstellar objects before we ...

Two black holes merged together 2.4 billion light years away from Earth, and scientists have just figured out how fast the newborn ricocheted, and in which direction.