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 ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

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 ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre ...

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

G eorge Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the ...

In many ways, Lina and Neriman's refugee journey from Iraq to Utah parallels that of a cosmic ray: covering great distances, ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays in the centre of our galaxy has been a mystery for decades, but researchers think they’ve ...