Many of the world's most important systems, such as the atmosphere, turbulent fluids, and even the motion of planets, behave ...

Star Trek's iconic warp drive, once pure science fiction, is now inspiring real-world astrophysicists. Scientists are developing theoretical models t ...

Dubbing these “closed timelike geodesics” (CTGs), Ralph and Sajeendran explain in the paper: “Such a CTG would be ideal for ...

Under normal circumstances, your light cone (and thus your world line) remains fixedly pointed toward the future. However, we ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

If you want your brain to feel like a rubber band stretching across the galaxy, "Interstellar" is where you start.

What does the passage of time look like for a truly quantum object? The world’s best clocks may soon be able to answer this question, testing how time can stretch and shift in the quantum realm and ...

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

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 ...

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

10 years ago, Metroid Prime series producer Kensuke Tanabe sat down with me at E3 2015 and said he'd like to make a new game in the franchise with a time travel mechanic. This was, obviously, a long ...