A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
For nearly a century, astronomers have been convinced that most of the universe is made of something we can’t see. Now, fresh ...
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...
Researchers from SISSA - in collaboration with INFN, IFPU and the University of Warsaw - have published a study in Physical ...
Scientists have captured the first-ever direct evidence for dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up more than a ...
Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...
The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...
An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...
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 ...
This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...