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 ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

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

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

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Quantum mechanics governs the world of particles ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

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

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...