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A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

Providing capabilities found nowhere else in the world as it probes the physics behind magnetic reconnection, the Facility ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

Brian Schmidt explains dark energy’s role in accelerating universe expansion, 1998 discovery’s impact, and urges students to ...