The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at all never drop to absolute zero thanks to a fossil relic left over from ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

Delve into the detail of atomic physics. As the basic units of matter, atoms are the building blocks for everything in the universe. Once thought to be indivisible, we now know they can indeed be ...

Doesn’t that just say that the edge of the observable universe is moving away from us at the speed of light? Which is what being the edge of the observable universe means? Click to expand... But doesn ...