Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

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Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

There’s a reason that weaving was among humankind’s first technologies. Spacetime is constantly weaving The Eternal Now, the ...

Physicists are quietly rewriting the rulebook for how we might cross the gulf between stars, not by bolting bigger rockets to ...

C hina has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we ...

The final episode of fifth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things is out this week, and the concept of a wormhole ...