Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Light travels at a whopping 299,792 kilometers per second. It zips from Earth to the Moon in a heartbeat, clears the orbit of ...

X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) have been combined with infrared data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light blue, teal and orange) and radio from ...

The mysterious interstellar object hurtling through our solar system has just given scientists more evidence that it may be a craft from another part of the galaxy. According to Harvard astrophysicist ...

The mystery of strangely blinking objects scattered throughout the Milky Way just deepened. Something 15,000 light-years away from the Sun isn't just slowly, methodically beaming out radio waves – ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly small "dark object" lurking within a distant ring of warped light. The record-breaking find could help shed light on the mysterious identity of dark matter, ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A team of scientists ...

Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in its path, and you’d have a system much like the one described in the 4 May issue of the ...