Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity as an action at a distance: a planet instantly feels the influence of another celestial body, no matter the distance between them. This characteristic ...

Its been a while since we’ve had a high-quality shoot-em-up (SHMUP), and Dark Gravity is seeking to change that. With a striking low-poly aesthetic and frantic action, Dark Gravity will be launching ...

This article is more than 8 years old. Verlinde's model uses this connection between thermodynamics (heat, energy and forces) and information through a mathematical method known as the holographic ...

Despite decades of searching, the "dark matter" thought to hold galaxies together is still nowhere to be found. Matthew Chalmers describes how some physicists think it makes more sense to change our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is starting to turn a long‑standing cosmic mystery into something that looks almost tangible.

For a few centuries, physicists were comfortable with our laws of gravity. Then, something interesting happened in the 1900s, as astronomers measured the rotational speed of galaxies. Something was ...

The existence of dark matter is generally accepted by the sort of scientists who care about that kind of thing. After all, it’s a pretty robust explanation for why some stars and galaxies around the ...

Physicists have spent a century trying to reconcile the smooth fabric of spacetime in general relativity with the jittery ...

A new model of the Universe suggests that modifying Newton's theory of gravity could do away with the need for dark matter. The model instead relies on an as-of-yet undiscovered form of gravity to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When you look out at the Universe, there are a few things you'd ...

Dark matter is currently the most widely accepted hypothesis for explaining some of the weirdness we see in the cosmos – but it’s not the only possibility. Now, a team of astronomers has discovered ...

Throughout the Universe, there are lots of signs that there's more gravity out there than there is visible matter to produce it. Over the last few decades, physicists have slowly come to the ...