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Space power is central to communication, navigation, and surveillance. China’s “Space Silk Road” envisions orbital highways of satellites as critical to global influence, much as maritime routes once ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

What if gravity repelled instead of attracted? This video explores how repulsive gravity could have shaped the history of the ...

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

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.” ...

Born in Kiel, Germany, in 1858, Max Planck grew up in a family that valued hard work and tradition. Planck went off to study ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio image of two supermassive black holes orbiting each other within the quasar OJ287, ...

One of the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein, loved playing the violin. In fact, he started learning when he was ...

Astronomers spotted the celestial standoff in the heart of the galaxy OJ287, around five billion light-years from Earth.

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.