Why the universe is expanding faster and faster remains one of the biggest open questions in physics. Current theories cannot ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Mars follows a markedly different rhythm from Earth, as a Martian day is roughly 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, while a ...

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of ...

From Nara, Einstein and Elsa traveled overnight by train “from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.” to Hiroshima Prefecture. In the early ...

‘New year, new you’. One can imagine the Prime Minister repeating this most hollow of secular mantras in front of a full ...

A Short History of Nearly Everything (fully revised and updated) ...

For the first time, scientists have introduced a new software capable of telling time on the Moon, a breakthrough designed to ...

Astronomers have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper: twist the very fabric of spacetime around it. The new observations capture a spinning monster ...

The world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time, is judged the scientific breakthrough of 2017.

Throughout history, Jews have made remarkable contributions to science, culture, and the arts. Their curiosity, creativity, and intelligence have shaped ...