Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

One Rivian R1T owner loaded 8,000 pounds of river rock improperly and was hit by extreme, high-speed trailer sway that nearly ...

Uncover the mystery of the gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center. New simulations suggest dark matter collisions could ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

Astronomers have caught a runaway black hole in the act of tearing apart a star in a place it shouldn’t be: far from the bustling center of its host galaxy. The stellar catastrophe – known as a tidal ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...