To most of us, time feels as solid as the phone alarm that drags us out of bed or the calendar that fills up faster than we ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

Scientists could soon test Einstein's theory of general relativity by measuring the distortion of time. General relativity states that gravity is the result of mass warping the fabric of space and ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

“The passage of time is fundamental to the theory of relativity: how you realize it, how you calculate it, and what influences it,” said Bijunath Patla, a physicist at the National Institute of ...

A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

From what we know about No Man’s Sky, aging won’t be a source of in-game anxiety. Although characters can definitely die and the universe is big enough to explore into one’s dotage, the archbishop won ...