Wormholes, conceptual tunnels slicing through spacetime, offer a theoretical shortcut between two distant cosmic points.

From Interstellar to Star Wars, science fiction is filled with stories of how humans might travel through the universe to visit distant worlds. But even with our most advanced modern rockets, ...

In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the arrival of a neutrino with approximately 20 to 30 times more energy than any other neutrino documented ...

"A starless or 'dark' dark matter halo would have no galaxy at its center." For some time, scientists have pondered a peculiar question: Can galaxies exist without an outer halo of dark matter? But ...

Here is a thought experiment for you: imagine shining a powerful laser at the moon, the beam cutting through space until it lands on its dusty grey surface. Now flick the laser so the spot of light ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and ...

In “The Quantum Bubble That Could Destroy the Universe,” Matthew von Hippel discusses vacuum decay, in which a change in the Higgs field would create an expanding quantum bubble that would transform ...