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

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

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

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

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

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

Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a ...

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

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

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

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