Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites continuously beam down ultra-precise timestamps, each message essentially saying, “It was 12:00:00.000001 when I sent this.” ...

We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

A historic violin once owned by Albert Einstein has resurfaced and sold for over $1 million, revealing a fascinating piece of ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Roger Penrose, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics, said on Tuesday that the biggest outstanding riddle about black holes was the question of what went on in the very centre of them - the ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have ...