Dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to make up most of the universe's mass, has puzzled scientists for nearly a ...

Long-anticipated findings confirm eclipses create a ripple effect in Earth's atmosphere.

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

So physicists went on the hunt for a deeper theory — a theory of quantum gravity — that could potentially describe the world beyond space and time. They’re still hunting. But even if they find that ...

An international team of scientists, composed of researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid, Saint Louis ...

“Whatever your quantum gravity model is, it has to be able to explain black ... “that maybe whatever microscopic theory describes black holes lives in a space-time with one lower dimension.” This ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed up in just 12 words: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve”. But this short description from the ...

Unless you're an astronaut, you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about gravity. What would happen if gravity ...

The findings, they say, expand scientists' knowledge of low gravity's potential ... Once the tissues were on the space station, the scientists received real-time data for 10 seconds every 30 ...

The team found that, by including a softer layer at the base of the moon's mantle, it was easier to reproduce the observed ...

The suit is far more elaborate than the long-ago Mercury model and far more expensive, the product of a $228-million contract ...