Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum ...

History is full of scientific ideas that sounded absurd, offended common sense, or clashed with powerful institutions, only ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

A B-17 pilot turned visionary creator, Roddenberry embedded real physics, social commentary, and moral dilemmas into Star ...

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 ...

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas ...

Former Los Angeles Laker and NBA champion Elden Campbell died at age 57 after suffering a medical emergency while fishing in ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible warp-drive designs and detection methods.

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A cause of death has been revealed on Thursday, Dec. 4 for former Lakers star Elden Campbell, who died at age 57 after a ...