How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

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

Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...