In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we meet three scientists who are trying to answer a question that...

IntroductionOur universe has a beginning. And someday, it will have an end too — but which one? As the cosmos expands and the stars...

The first observation of a stellar system that is destined to explode as a kilonova...

Wen-fai Fong, assistant professor in physics and astronomy and head of Northwestern University’s Fong group, talks to Rob Lea about her journey into...

The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration has announced that the search for gravitational waves will resume in May....

Thiago Guerreiro1, Francesco Coradeschi2, Antonia Micol Frassino3, Jennifer Rittenhouse West4, and Enrico Junior Schioppa51Department of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio...

IntroductionPhysicists believe they have detected a striking asymmetry in the arrangements of galaxies in the sky. If confirmed, the finding would point to features...

This is an opinion editorial by Arman The Parman, a Bitcoin educator passionate about privacy.Over many years, I have tinkered with various Bitcoin wallets...

Astronomers have turned their eye towards the future following the US National Academies’ latest decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, which...

For most people, quantum mechanics seems pretty weird. Take the principle of delocalization, which states...

Neutron stars are incredibly compact objects that can form after the death of a star. However, little is known about their interiors. Since their...

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Elena Cuoco of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) explains how multimessenger astronomy...