"Interstellar navigation is a complex, systematic engineering task. Breakthroughs in a single discipline cannot support the ...

The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) unveiled its new School of Space Exploration on Tuesday in Beijing, marking a key step toward cultivating talent for China's deep space exploration ...

Humanity has learned to fling machines to the edge of the solar system, but the stars remain stubbornly out of reach. The ...

The other two known interstellar comets did not offer such an opportunity.

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Today, there is no back catalogue of backs, zydeco tapes, or stock footage of an ambulance. There is simply Juan Brito, our ...

Although science fiction is not real, several shows base their ideas on what we know about science relating to space and time ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Since Einstein, physicists have found that certain entities can reach superluminal (that means "faster-than-light") speeds and still follow the cosmic rules laid down by special relativity.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is set to make history by becoming the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth by November 2026.

Twists like Darth Vader's reveal in The Empire Strikes Back, or the ending of The Mist, are among the greatest and most ...