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

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 ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

In this series of articles, the writer highlights that many of today’s scientists, in their relentless quest to comprehend ...

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

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

A new theoretical study proposes that light from distant galaxies could be slightly shifted in color by interactions with ...

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

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

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...

Dark matter, possessing mass but barely interacting with light, could significantly alter our understanding and perception of ...