Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

In the world where the second hand of the clock dictates every aspect of our lives, from mundane routines to monumental decisions, we often overlook a profound question: How do entities that operate ...

Can we journey through time? Sci-fi author Dete Meserve presents a compelling case for our future in the past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

NASA astronauts have been the driving forces behind expanding human spaceflight by staying in space for long durations to ...