The answer comes from a counterintuitive result of special relativity, a field of physics which is notoriously difficult to ...

There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”.

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are holes.

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

New quantum experiments may settle the century-old Einstein vs Bohr debate, revealing key insights into quantum behaviour.

SMC Planetarium offers solar system and black hole shows in January and February, with tickets $7-16. Shows run Fridays at ...

Black holes are the most massive objects in the universe, and you definitely don't want to run into one, but there's a chance ...

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

If the Chinese have figured out a highly accurate system, the mathematics involved are valid regardless of who writes the ...

If the universe was a soundtrack, we have been humming it our whole life. Every atom in our body, every star in the sky, every beam of light is part of a piece of music that never stops playing.