After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it ...
One of physicists’ foundational assumptions is that atoms aren’t unique—if two atoms have the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons, they will look and act exactly alike. This belief is ...
A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil fuels. If you have ...
Scientists have long assumed our universe would continue on for trillions of years, but a new study presents a much shorter life span for the cosmos: Our universe might last only another 33 billion ...
Scientists have discovered that ultraheavy atomic nuclei could explain some of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed.
Astronomers have unveiled one of the largest cosmological simulation datasets ever created, offering an expansive new tool to explore how the universe evolved across billions of years. Produced by the ...
Scientists know our universe is expanding. Now they have a better idea how fast. Cosmologists who study the universe know it began with the big bang and has been expanding from a single point ever ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Eternity is calling! After about four decades of starts and stops. A new Master Of The Universe ...
Gravitational waves are famous for shaking the universe, yet barely nudging anything around us. We have detected them with some of the most sensitive machines ever built, but a new idea asks a ...
One of the weirdest theories in cosmology is the holographic principle, the idea that our universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface — the idea that, yes, we are ...
New map of the Universe. On the night of 14 April, a cosmology project completed its initial five-year mission to create the most detailed 3D map of the Universe so far. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...