Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who gave up his US citizenship to become a citizen of China in 2015 and helped persuade other scientists to do the same, passed away. He was 103.

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

Russell M. Kulsrud, 97, a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work helped define the modern fields of plasma physics and ...

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

Pushing scientists closer than ever to understanding the Big Bang, physicists have finally measured the temperature of ...

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Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in a distant part of the universe, hopefully offering new insight into one ...

For decades, astronomers have listened to the cosmos through pulsars — rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit perfectly ...

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Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

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

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