All matter moves through space-time at the universal constant— the speed of light— but this speed is shared between motion in space and the flow of time. Objects don’t speed up beyond light speed; ...

Physicists have managed to simulate a strange quantum phenomenon where light appears to arise from empty space a concept that ...

The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, sends out bursts of radio waves and X-rays that last two minutes and repeat every 44 ...

You could swim through the deepest voids and encounter a single hydrogen atom in an entire football field's worth of space.

Aside from being the most powerful known explosions in the universe, ENTs can help astronomers learn more about monster black ...

Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our understanding of the universe and resolve big unanswered ...

For 20 years, one of the most promising signs of new physics has been a tiny inconsistency in the magnetism of a particle ...

Everything you see - from your screen to distant galaxies - is made of just three particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. But there’s a cosmic problem: we’ve found virtually no antimatter, ...

When Lightning Strikes, So Do Gamma Rays. On January 30, 2023, at 01:13 AM local time, lightning struck Tower 1. A downward ...

But recent research points to an even more thrilling role: these winds might be the missing source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, the most energetic particles ever observed in the universe.

What happens right before two bolts of lightning smash into each other? An invisible blast of radiation a million times more ...

“That’s why we call it a ‘cosmic joust,’” said Pasquier Noterdaeme, a researcher for the Paris Institute of Astrophysics and the French-Chilean Laboratory for Astronomy in Chile who was ...