Dreaming of visiting other stars? The universe has built in walls we cannot break. This video confronts the harsh physics ...

BENGALURU: Everyone has studied the irrational number π (pi) in school and wondered what is its use in modern day life.

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force (F) determined by their masses (M) and the ...

Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new models provide sharper insights into subsurface conditions that future ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.

Einstein explained that gravity affects each passing second. Clocks slow down where gravity grows stronger. Clocks speed up ...

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

Takanori Takebe’s strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly sentimental origins: helping his dad.