Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites continuously beam down ultra-precise timestamps, each message essentially saying, “It was 12:00:00.000001 when I sent this.” ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

We are one of the largest High Energy Physics groups in the UK, with around 100 academics, research and technical staff, and PhD students. We work at the forefront of research across ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity reshaped our understanding of time space and gravity But deep inside its equations lies a mystery the one Einstein never predicted a hole that could change how physics ...

If you want your brain to feel like a rubber band stretching across the galaxy, "Interstellar" is where you start.

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

You don’t need to be a math genius to start learning quantum physics; many books break it down simply. There are books that ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...