Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

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One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Its clarity allowed ...

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might rewrite gravity.

Two researchers have found an explanation for why we find almost no exoplanets orbiting binary stars. According to them, ...

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...