The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy.

Those bemoaning the state of Britain’s trains should perhaps remind themselves that our first-ever passenger service wasn’t ...

More than 100 Roma supporters have been arrested in Nice ahead of Wednesday’s Europa League match between the two teams ...

It was young Roger Thomas who discovered something unexpected in the tule reeds. The 12-year-old and his father were tromping through the marsh on the edge of San Francisco Bay on a warm Sunday ...

First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.

“Imagine that the earth has been watched over the aeons by an extremely patient extraterrestrial observer. Nothing, save a little hydrogen and helium, leaves the planet. And then, less than 20 years ...

When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational ...

Archaeologists discover an intact 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb containing skeletons, weapons, and more than 100 funerary objects ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chad Hanna, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists first detected ripples in space ...