In this Python astrophysics tutorial, I walk you through calculating the gravitational field produced by a ring of mass. Using numerical methods and Python libraries, we explore how to compute ...

Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...

Being on the surface of a sizable planet moving at high speed through space, spinning around a yellow star and on its axis, ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Six scientists from the Max Planck Society have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant this year. The projects cover the ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...