Voyager 1 – one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space – still works and zooms toward infinity. The craft has long since zipped past ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have simulated a way to summon light, seemingly out of thin air. Their work is quite exciting as it taps into one of the strangest predictions of quantum physics ...

If we take out all the matter, neutrinos, dark matter, cosmic rays, and radiation from the deepest parts of the voids, the only thing left is empty space. I know it sounds like a paradox, but the ...

The vast emptiness of the Universe hides countless unsolved mysteries and riddles. In the deepest darkness of outer space, there lurk many striking objects with unusual and sometimes even anomalous ...

A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a kind of quantum instability that could trigger what's known as vacuum decay ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we know it, may happen 10,000 times sooner than expected. Fortunately, it still ...

What comes to mind when you think of space? Imagine a friend boasting about a spacious building, stadium or museum they recently visited. Do you envision the building as vast and expansive? Is it ...