Want to delve into the mysteries of space and time? Carnegie Science Observatories walks the public through both with the launch of its 24th Season of free lect ...
Time is the strange dimension: Unlike its spatial siblings, it is a one-way street as the clock only ever ticks forward and never backward. Scientists have long been aware of time's quirks, with the ...
Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...
Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a shared perspective about what the next revolution in physics will look like. They think reconciling Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity ...
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and was designed to be serviced by the Space Shuttle. Michael J. Massimino, former NASA astronaut and professor of Professional Practice at Columbia ...