Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been defined more by silence than discovery, but that balance ...

Our solar system is speeding through space much faster than previously thought, challenging the fundamental assumptions that have long shaped our understanding of the cosmos. That’s according to ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using just a laptop. The team created a system that dramatically speeds up how ...

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A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. In a newly ...

Two ‘fans’ corresponding to the two main areas DESI has observed, above and below the plane of our Milky Way (see this map). DESI is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Nicholas U. Mayall ...

Credit: International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA). Magnetism is everywhere in the universe today—from the Earth’s protective magnetic shield to the powerful fields surrounding stars and ...

Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What ...

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter ...

Move over, Shapley Superstructure; there’s a new champion in town. Astronomers have identified a cosmic filament of matter so vast that it stretches about 1.3 billion light-years – approximately 7.6 ...

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a novel approach to manipulate the spacetime metric g μν by employing gauge-transformed optical soliton beams to generate gravitational solitons, enabling a toroidal time ...