Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Physicists propose that tangled cosmic “knots” formed after the Big Bang may explain why our universe is made of matter, not ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

In many ways, Lina and Neriman's refugee journey from Iraq to Utah parallels that of a cosmic ray: covering great distances, ...

Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have shown that linking quantum sensors in optimized networks can dramatically boost their sensitivity. Uncovering dark matter, the invisible substance thought to bind ...