About two decades ago, in 1998, a supernova observation began to slowly reveal the contours of the enigmatic universe. The ...

Coe College will lead universities in Iowa and across the U.S. in research of "high-level physics" with the aid of a ...

Warp drive has long been a narrative shortcut for science fiction, but a new generation of physicists is treating it as a ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...

This video walks you all the way to the last pages of reality, exploring what modern physics says about how the universe ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...