Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

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 ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

Foundations in science and physics exist at the very core of the Netflix's hit show “Stranger Things," demonstrating to audiences for over a decade that our universe may be "stranger" than we care to ...

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

When a student first learns how a simple equation can explain the motion of planets or the behaviour of light, it sparks more than academic interest--it awakens a lifelong curiosity about how the ...

Even after the last stars burn out and black holes fade away, the universe may not be completely dead. In the unimaginably ...

The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...