China has quietly solved a problem that only becomes obvious once you try to live and work off-world: clocks on the moon do ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Wormholes sit at the edge of science and storytelling, promising shortcuts across the cosmos and even pathways through time.

There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”.

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local relationship with it. The Moon and the ...

The answer comes from a counterintuitive result of special relativity, a field of physics which is notoriously difficult to ...

Thanks to Albert Einstein, the US Government wants to establish an official time zone for the Moon. It has less to do with jet lag and more to do with how gravity affects time and can throw a lot of ...

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...