When speaking of our universe, it's often said that "matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter how to move." This is the essence of Albert Einstein's famous general theory ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as space-time. Here's what it means!

A team of researchers led by the University of Warwick has developed the first unified framework for detecting "spacetime fluctuations"—tiny, random distortions in the fabric of spacetime that appear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New physics research suggests spacetime may preserve some gravitational structures as it evolves. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA ...

There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for ...

Mind-bending materials called quasicrystals have an orderly structure, but without a regularly repeating pattern. They’ve been found in meteorites and the debris from the first atomic bomb test.

A team of scientists has used X-ray and gamma-ray observations of some of the most distant objects in the Universe to better understand the nature of space and time. Their results set limits on the ...

The quantum revolution in physics -- whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated -- taught us that at the most basic level the world is bizarrely different than it seems. But, we appear to only ...