Last week's lesson was time dilation, and you hopefully understand the basics of how it works. Cliff notes: According to Einstein's theory of relativity, the faster you travel, the slower time passes.

Every week, the readers of our space newsletter, The Airlock, send in their questions for space reporter Neel V. Patel to answer. This week: time dilation during space travel. I heard that time ...

WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reuters) - Time is a slippery thing, as profound thinkers like physicist Albert Einstein and, well, fictional time traveler Dr. Who plainly understood. The latter, in a 2007 ...

Did you know that moving a clock one inch toward the ground would result in a slower tick compared to the same clock positioned higher up? Gravity doesn't just pull things; it also bends time.

The flow of time isn’t as consistent as we might think – gravity slows it down, so clocks on the surface of Earth tick slower than those in space. Now researchers have measured time passing at ...

If dark energy continues its dominance in the Universe, every galaxy beyond our neighborhood will one day no longer be visible (via NASA) Dark energy is an unknown form of energy that is proposed to ...

Robin Zabiegalski (they/them) is a queer, non-binary writer with over eight years of experience writing for digital media. Robin previously covered Star Trek for Heavy.com and has interviewed several ...

Google says spyware was slipped onto smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan with the help of mobile interent service providers who cut off service so users could be ...

Star Trek episodes set on time-dilation planets explore accelerated evolution or lifetimes for characters. Star Trek: Lower ...