Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. While general relativity is now the central theory of gravity, it fails to explain some cosmological phenomena and mysteries, such as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows matter rushing forward from a singularity at the dawn of time during the Big Bang. | Credit: Robert Lea ...

The mass of distant galaxies cannot be determined by the brightness of their stars alone. The speed at which gas moves within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nearby Andromeda galaxy with older stars highlighted in blue. A new theory of quantum gravity could help explain why more ...

Scientists have spent sixty years arguing over why the quantum weirdness that lets atoms exist in two states at once disappears by the time you get to a cat, a coffee cup, or a person. A new ...

A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential "cosmic glitch" in the universe's gravity, explaining its strange behavior on a ...

Gravity, the invisible pull that keeps us grounded, is not as uniform as one might think. Contrary to popular belief, its intensity fluctuates across the Earth, influenced by our planet’s inner ...

Theoretical physicists have long been trying to devise a complete theory of gravity that would also account for quantum mechanics phenomena, as existing models do not. Such a theory could collectively ...

Researchers at Columbia University have found that, under the right conditions, gravitational fields can break and reconnect, ...