On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star, dubbed M31-V1, was key to showing that the universe extended far beyond ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

Physicists predict the universe’s expansion will reverse, ending in a dramatic big crunch about 20 billion years from now.

Discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson is vital for understanding mass in particle physics, confirming decades of theoretical ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

For more than three decades, the scientific consensus on the composition of the universe has rested on a foundation both elegant and perplexing: that roughly 95% of all that exists is made up of ...

A recent paper has proposed a new idea for what is causing the observed accelerated expansion of the universe, and dark ...

A study from Rice University, published in PRX Quantum, has found that energy transfers more quickly between molecular sites ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe. However, a new study ...