Wormholes sit at the edge of science and storytelling, promising shortcuts across the cosmos and even pathways through time.

The universe comes with a built‑in speed cap, a hard limit that shapes everything from how stars shine to how cause and ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

So far, the most accurate model describing gravity is still Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It states that gravity as we feel and observe it is a kind of side effect of the fabric of ...

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe. At the start of the 20th century, physicists had a problem: The speed of light ...

Even 100 years after Einstein formulated his theory of general relativity, new observations keep confirming its predictions. Now, Australian astronomers have found some of the best evidence of one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Gravity might have been the first fundamental force ever discovered, ...

People have always taken space for granted. It is just emptiness, after all—a backdrop to everything else. Time, likewise, simply ticks on incessantly. But if physicists have learned anything from the ...

Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in terms of science and engineering. Electromagnetism has ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...