When black holes collide, the crash generates ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves. These distortions ...

Ted Cruz said in a public meeting that she was “begging” NASA to release a document that would kick off the second round of a ...

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

Packing cubes are a must-have for many travelers. They make it easy to keep your suitcase organized, so it’s always easy to find what you need.

Mind-bending materials called quasicrystals have an orderly structure, but without a regularly repeating pattern. They’ve been found in meteorites and the debris from the first atomic bomb test.

An innovative hypergravity centrifuge in China can handle up to 1,900 G-tons, which makes it possible to test future scenarios that would otherwise be invisible for decades or millenia. It can ...

This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing ...

Space is a frontier that’s nearly impossible to get just right, and not every film can portray it without it coming across as cheesy or without losing the inherently terrifying aspects of it once it’s ...

From spaghettified convicts to doomed interplanetary liners, these space movies really pile on the misery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The rationale behind Golden Dome’s mandate for space-based boost-phase defense made some sense. If orbiting interceptors could hit an enemy missile very early in flight—before it could deploy ...

The term "space opera" refers to a subgenre of science fiction, which often involves interplanetary or intergalactic wars between opposing factions. Other elements include romance, melodramatic ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to an ambitious concept explored by PBS Space Time: could antimatter-powered spacecraft exist within our lifetime? This video breaks down how antimatter propulsion would work ...