London's Exhibition Road will close to traffic this weekend as the famous museums and institutions of South Kensington combine for the Great Exhibition Road Festival. Among the series of free events ...

A recent paper has proposed a new idea for what is causing the observed accelerated expansion of the universe, and dark matter, suggesting both of them may a "cosmic illusion" caused by the changing ...

Erika Hamden is an Ivy League-educated astrophysicist and the director of the University of Arizona Space Institute, so you can trust her when she tells you just how weird the universe is. Innumerable ...

"If such a fifth force exists, it cannot exceed 7% of the strength of gravity." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...