Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

Providing capabilities found nowhere else in the world as it probes the physics behind magnetic reconnection, the Facility ...

The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum columnist Karmela ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood, ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

The basic idea of 3D time isn't new. But University of Alaska geophysicist Gunther Kletetschka says his mathematical ...

The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

After years of preparation, U.K. astronomers are celebrating a major milestone as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals its first dazzling images of the night sky. This marks the beginning of the most ...

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...