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

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

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

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

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

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

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 ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

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, ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

Brown University physics Prof. Stephon Alexander spoke on how the analysis of musical elements can help astrophysicists understand patterns of the universe in his lecture “The Jazz of Physics” ...