In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe’s contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons. Most of those atoms cannot be found in stars and galaxies – a ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

The idea of wormholes isn’t new. They’ve long been theorized as shortcuts through space and time, frequently depicted in science fiction. What sets this research apart is its focus on wormholes as ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

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A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.