Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

Warp drive has long been a narrative shortcut for science fiction, but a new generation of physicists is treating it as a ...

Easy: He uses a warp drive, a nifty little propulsion trick that allows the crew to exceed the speed of light by warping ...

Stephen DiKerby receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

New details from the Webb telescope indicate there might be a fundamental problem with our understanding of the universe. The spiral galaxy NGC 4258, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, measures ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

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

Marvel’s decision to cast Robert Downey, Jr. as Doctor Doom may have been the talk of Comic-Con, but there was plenty of actual comic book news coming out of the show, too. And perhaps nothing on the ...

Tinkering at their desks with the mathematics of quantum space and time, physicists have discovered a puzzling conundrum. The arcane rules of quantum theory and gravity let them imagine many different ...