How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

The Earth-moon Lagrange points may be next. In 2024, the U.S. House Select Committee on the China adopted the most definitive U.S. guidance yet on these special locations in cislunar space: “ensure ...

Right now, we're zooming through space at incredible speeds, so why aren't we dizzy or flying off into space?  An expert ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Unusual radio signals from beneath Antarctica’s ice continue to defy explanation. Several years ago, scientists using a cosmic particle detector in Antarctica recorded a series of puzzling radio ...

In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at ...

Scientists have managed to recreateplasma “fireballs” in the lab. This experiment, the first of its kind, could finally ...

Multiple televisions are mounted throughout the dining area, perfect for catching the game while you’re working your way through what might be the best pork tenderloin in Kentucky. The seating ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...