Whether space-time exists should be neither controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of "space-time," "events" and "instants." The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

Simulations indicate that Saturn’s moon Enceladus ejects less ice into space than previously estimated. In the 1600s, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini aimed their telescopes at ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

A British-built space instrument has officially launched aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) ...

As we mark World Space Week, the Director of the UN's office for space speaks about ensuring the benefits of space reach everyone, everywhere.