A doomed star spiraling into a supermassive black hole has given physicists one of their clearest looks yet at how gravity ...

Based on Einstein's theory, they demonstrated that if a massive object rotates rapidly, it drags space-time along with it.

Earth is not a still point in space, but a planet hurtling through the cosmos at incredible speeds. This video breaks down the complex layers of our motion: the 66,000 mph orbit around the sun, the ...

The extra precession of Mercury—42.9 seconds of arc per century—explained by General Relativity (GR), is the result of a secular addition of 5.02 × 10 −7 rad. at the end of every orbit around the Sun.

Regular readers of my column certainly know how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris). Some folks believe Polaris is important because it’s the brightest star in the heavens, and ...

The ebb and flow of Pleistocene glacial cycles is not random; it follows a predictable pattern dictated by the distinct and deterministic influence of Earth’s orbital geometry, according to a new ...

Amy McCarthy is a former reporter at Eater, focusing on pop culture, policy and labor, and only the weirdest online trends. As The Menu, director Mark Mylod’s chilling 2022 send-up of the world of ...

Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ...

It's a saying you might have heard on social media or perhaps a friend has said it: "very mindful, very demure." The newest internet trend is thanks to a Chicago-based TikTok content creator who goes ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Blink Twice,” in theaters now. In Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, paradise is not quite what it seems. At the beginning of “Blink Twice,” roommates ...