On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is gone forever. According to quantum theory, that is impossible. Information ...

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

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

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old - after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

No one knows for sure, but it is not unlikely that the universe is constructed in a completely different way than the usual theories and models of today predict. The most widely used model today ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is seeing deeper into time than any machine before it — uncovering galaxies that shouldn’t ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

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Different parts of the universe could have different rates of expansion, potentially explaining the perpelexing "Hubble tension." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He was 80.