A century after Albert Einstein sketched out his radical picture of gravity, astronomers have now watched a black hole ...

You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy ...

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

A pair of researchers at Applied Physics has created what they describe as the first general model of a warp drive, a model for a spacecraft that could travel faster than a speed of light without ...

Billions of years ago, before the formation of the solar system, our region of space was awash in a dense cloud of gas and dust known as a solar nebula. Cold temperatures forced some of that gas ...

What comes to mind when you think of space? Imagine a friend boasting about a spacious building, stadium or museum they recently visited. Do you envision the building as vast and expansive? Is it ...

Since the pandemic began, the arrival of each new year feels like a reprise of "let's do the time warp again" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Now, imagine if you lived in space.For those of us ...