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.” ...

A team of physicists has captured the Terrell-Penrose effect, showing objects appearing rotated as if moving at 99.9% the ...

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

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

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

In a stunning leap for quantum optics, scientists have generated ultrafast light pulses whose quantum uncertainty can be ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

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

Astronomers spotted the celestial standoff in the heart of the galaxy OJ287, around five billion light-years from Earth.

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.

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...