Albert Einstein, a renowned physicist, believed mistakes are vital for progress. His quote highlights that avoiding errors means avoiding new experiences. This principle encourages trying new things, ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

By building an atomic equivalent of the critical Josephson junction, scientists can now study how energy is lost and excitations form.

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

Warp drive has long been a narrative shortcut for science fiction, but a new generation of physicists is treating it as a ...

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...