Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around ...

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are holes.

A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...

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

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

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

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

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

Why the universe is expanding faster and faster remains one of the biggest open questions in physics. Current theories cannot ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

The most direct probe of λ3 comes from Higgs-boson pair production (HH). HH production happens most often by the fusion of ...