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

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

Fusion is the next big energy frontier. Companies and nations alike are pouring money into researching it to find a way to ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

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

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

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

G eorge Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays in the centre of our galaxy has been a mystery for decades, but researchers think they’ve ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...