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Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

Researchers have, for the first time, observed tiny voids in phonon-polariton waves moving faster than light, without violating Einstein’s theory of relativity. Using ultrafast electron microscopy on ...

Planets orbiting two stars were expected to be everywhere. Instead, astronomers have found only a few, and new research ...

While Einstein’s theories and work continue to shape reality as we know it, one anonymous enthusiast was recently able to walk away with a bit of the famous physicist in the form of pages of notes ...

Einstein's special relativity emerged independently, challenging misconceptions about the Michelson-Morley experiment's ...

A handwritten copy of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity notes was sold for millions at Christie’s auction house in Paris, France, on Tuesday. The 54-page document by Einstein and his friend ...

While the ΛCDM model has been a cornerstone of cosmology, it is showing its limitations as researchers seek to explain observations beyond its scope. (CREDIT: ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org) The ...