Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

The light echo around the star V838 Monocerotis as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in November 2005. When I was a teenager, I was—shockingly, I know—deeply nerdy. At a science-fiction convention, I ...

"Nothing travels faster than light," you've probably heard before. Indeed, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, ...