What Rules Actually Prohibit Us From Building a Warp Drive?

In 1994 Miguel Alcubierre was able to construct a valid solution to the equations of general…

How Warp Drives Actually (Might) Work

To make a warp drive you have to arrange spacetime so that you never locally travel…

The World’s Oldest Impact Crater Has Been Found in Australia

The surfaces of the Moon, Mercury, and Mars are easily visible and are littered with impact…

Blue Ghost Watches the Lunar Sunset, Signalling the End of its Mission

The exploration of the Moon began during the Cold War with the Soviet Union’s Luna 2…

Good News. The Death Star Isn’t Pointed Towards Us

It’s ok, Darth Vader hasn’t got our humble planet in his sights! No this Death Star…

Fresh Findings Strengthen the Case for Dark Energy’s Evolution

It’s looking more and more as if dark energy, the mysterious factor that scientists say is…

How Warp Drives Don’t Break Relativity

Somehow, we all know how a warp drive works. You’re in your spaceship and you need…

JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 4: Stellar Populations and the Interstellar Medium

Welcome back to our five-part examination of Webb’s Cycle 4 General Observations program. In the first…

A Simulated Universe Works Better When Dark Energy Changes Over Time

Dark Energy is a mystery so daunting that it stretches and strains our most robust theories.…

The Extremely Large Telescope Could Sense the Hints of Life at Proxima Centauri in Just 10 Hours

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better…