Natalie Wolchover

New data tracking the movements of millions of Milky Way stars have effectively ruled out the presence of a “dark disk” that could have offered important clues to the mystery of dark matter.

The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

A California housewife who in the 1970s discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons is dead at 94.

Breathless media coverage notwithstanding, the cases for and against a hypothetical Planet Nine in the outskirts of the solar system remain inconclusive.

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s third detection further compounds the mystery of why black holes collide.

Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system.

The French mathematician was cited “for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets.”

Life might have originated in droplets that behave surprisingly like living cells.

The effort to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity means reconciling totally different notions of time.

By blasting a stack of minerals with a four-meter-long gun, scientists have found a new clue about the backstory of a very strange rock.