When you hear the term computer simulation, the first thing that pops into your mind is the bright, colorful graphics that ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

Space travel alters hemoglobin gene expression, increasing fetal globin production and shifting erythropoiesis to a primitive type. Low gravity in space increases the risk of coagulation disorders, ...

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Amid growing mystery surrounding 3I/ATLAS, GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is calling on NASA to share unreleased data and images ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

Recent advancements in space-time computation are revolutionizing the fields of science and medicine. Engineers from Rice University and Waseda University have made a breakthrough in this area, which ...