Sligo footballer Paul McNamara is among more than 30 inter-county Gaelic footballers, hurlers and camogie stars currently in Uganda for a week-long ‘Plant the Planet’ trip. It’s the fourth annual ...

A provocative theory is gaining new support today. Scientists suggest atom-sized black holes may move through Earth. These ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

According to Debarati Chatterjee, the well-known “leaky pipeline” model in gender studies shows how the number of women gets ...

Photo: Undergraduates, including Space Physics student Ari Chai and Aerospace Engineering student Ambroise Juston, are ...

In the world of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking’s predictions about black holes have always sparked fascination and debate.

Scientists have potentially solved the mystery behind LIGO's forbidden black hole pair, GW231123, through new computer simulations involving fast-spinning, magnetized stars.

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Funding uncertainties are pushing U.S. space scientists out of the field and putting existing and future space missions on the chopping block.

Business innovation: VM Photonics GmbH is a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) and Leibniz University Hannover. It offers ultra-precise ...