A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

Alexander Lenz argues that the charm quark is an experimental and theoretical enigma that has the potential to shed light on ...

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For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Theoretical physicist Abhay Ashtekar is famous for having worked on an idea for how space-time itself is generated. So we ...

The crushing defeat of the dismal Democratic Party (DDP) by the fascist Republican Party (FRP) across the two elected ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Barbara Latacz, a member of the BASE team at CERN, adjusting the BASE experiment's cryostat. The new device can cool an ...

Imagine you're standing in a hallway in a game - what does the scene need in order to make it scary? Should we turn ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...