Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

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

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

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

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

Physicists propose that tangled cosmic “knots” formed after the Big Bang may explain why our universe is made of matter, not ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move ...

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” ...