Astronomers expected to find hundreds of planets orbiting binary stars, but only 14 have been confirmed. New research indicates that general relativity destabilizes many of these planets, especially ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

If you understand how things work,” she says, “you can do things with that knowledge.” But she’s in this to solve an ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

Planets orbiting two stars were expected to be everywhere. Instead, astronomers have found only a few, and new research ...

This novel wave mechanics approach under the extreme conditions of ultra-high gravity assumes that spacetime degrades into a ...

Hang Yu, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics in Montana State University's College of Letters and Science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award in the amount of ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

What if the technology you use every day depends on a subtle distortion of time itself? The answer lies in a century-old idea ...

What if the technology you use every day depends on a subtle distortion of time itself? The answer lies in a century-old idea ...

Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and found that it behaves exactly as ...

Professor of Physics and Astronomy at West Virginia University Maura McLaughlin speaks on Wednesday night in Kresge Auditorium. McLaughlin discussed fundamental processes of the universe, such as ...