The seabed often causes apprehension: after all, that floor is hundreds of meters underwater where human life could not exist ...

The James Webb Space Telescope does not observe things like a regular camera that we would have on our cell phones. Instead, ...

Andy Burnham would become Labour’s Liz Truss by crashing the markets, allies of Sir Keir Starmer have said.

A provocative new theory suggests that the Universe may not have begun with a traditional Big Bang, but rather as a “Big Bounce” — the explosive rebound of matter collapsing into a black hole. Led by ...

For almost a century, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

Stellar black holes are born from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives, weighing from 3 to 50 times the mass of the Sun. When a star exhausts its fuel, it explodes in a ...

From Einstein's theory of relativity to cutting-edge explorations in quantum mechanics, scientists have proposed various theoretical paths to achieve time travel. Although most remain in the realm of ...

Ripples in spacetime now give astronomy a second sense. The network listens to collisions, maps a low-frequency background ...