A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

Physics sets unforgiving limits on how fast anything can move, yet the same laws also leave surprising room for creative ways ...

Santa lives at the North Pole. Full-time. The same place where the average winter temperature is minus 40 degree Celsius and ...

Albert Einstein, a renowned physicist, believed mistakes are vital for progress. His quote highlights that avoiding errors ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

A new warp-drive study proposes a novel segmented design that brings hyper-fast space travel one step closer to becoming a ...

If you're going to Mars you'd best take along a jar of anti-aging cream because while you're there you're going to age faster ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.