Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, sits 4.37 light-years away. At the speed Voyager 1 travels, reaching it ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals ...

A light particle can appear to leave a cloud of atoms before it enters – a new experiment, asking the atoms, confirms the ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...

Infrasound waves are usually too low for the human ear to actually hear, but they can still have a negative effect on ...