Antimatter engines could propel humanity into the next phase of spaceflight, but building them for spacecraft is still a long way off.Nzoka John / Getty Images Antimatter engines could be humanity's ...

Interstellar travel is only something humanity has achieved in science fiction — like Star Trek's USS Enterprise, which used antimatter engines to travel across star systems. But antimatter isn't just ...

Antimatter can produce more energy than anything else we know of, but it’s very fickle. A new field analysis explains what we need in order to progress with antimatter propulsion. While an antimatter ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

(via PBS Space Time) Antimatter drives sound like science fiction, but they may not be as far as you think. There’s a version that could, just maybe, launch within your lifetime.

Scientists at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory recently uncovered a twinkling little star that might hold the key to several of the universe’s deepest mysteries. Called a pulsar for its twinkle, the ...

We may be a big step closer to cracking one of the universe’s biggest and most fundamental mysteries. Scientists think that, when the universe was born nearly 14 billion years ago, it contained equal ...