Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...
The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...
Pushing scientists closer than ever to understanding the Big Bang, physicists have finally measured the temperature of ...
A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...
Frank Geurts is a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice and co-spokesperson of the RHIC STAR collaboration.
Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...
A new model suggests the universe may stop expanding and collapse in a reverse Big Bang, ending in a Big Crunch about 20 ...
A new study predicts the Universe will stop expanding in 11 billion years and collapse in a "Big Crunch" around 20 billion years from now.
If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...
He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big ...