Matthew McConaughey in “Interstellar.” Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment and Paramount Pictures Corporation The science fiction film “Interstellar” turns 10 years old ...

What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced that we were able to leave our Solar System and spread across ...

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In an earlier blog post about Christopher ...

Dr. Marcus Hale, a physicist at the University of Cambridge, has proposed a fascinating theory that could potentially revolutionize our understanding of interstellar travel. In a 2023 paper published ...

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The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.

After months of challenging trouble-shooting and suspenseful waiting, Voyager 1 is once again talking to Earth. The aging NASA spacecraft, about 24 billion kilometers from home, began transmitting ...

Physics major Shivank Chadda’s outstanding research project has earned him a Spring 2024 Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award, the highest honor for undergraduates in physics. Established ...

World-renowned astrophysicist Prof. Kip Thorne, theoretical physics, the California Institute of Technology, described how black holes and the recent detection of gravitational waves contributed to ...