On September 14, 2015, two enormous laser instruments in the United States twitched in near-perfect unison, registering a ...

A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path. ・Special relativity links space ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration inspired by the European Space Agency's upcoming LISA detector, with gravitational waves rippling through the ...

What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time challenges the popular view that the past, present, and future all exist together ...

Launching Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will investigate dark matter, dark energy and distant worlds while capturing panoramic views 100 times larger than Hubble's.

Nasa is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will study how the universe began, what it ...

Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light they ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

The first time a physicist told me they wanted to get rid of space-time, on a cold January morning earlier this year, I stopped typing my interview notes and clutched my New Scientist mug of tea.

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