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

Still, the first gravitationally lensed gravitational wave event is fascinating. The team estimates that if it truly was a ...

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The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. How much do we really know about what else is out there in the universe? Let’s take an outlandish example. If there ...

There are limits to what we can see across the gulf of space and time separating us from the early Universe. Light that travels across billions of light-years emanates from sources so distant it can ...

A collapsing warp bubble like the one seen in Star Trek would set space ringing with gravitational waves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. For ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. Every ...