Viewed this way, a definition is a decision mechanism. It distinguishes some elements of the universe from the others. Hence ...

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

Marvel’s decision to cast Robert Downey, Jr. as Doctor Doom may have been the talk of Comic-Con, but there was plenty of actual comic book news coming out of the show, too. And perhaps nothing on the ...

New details from the Webb telescope indicate there might be a fundamental problem with our understanding of the universe. The spiral galaxy NGC 4258, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, measures ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there must be a point it all came from. Modern cosmology turns that intuition ...

Tinkering at their desks with the mathematics of quantum space and time, physicists have discovered a puzzling conundrum. The arcane rules of quantum theory and gravity let them imagine many different ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope may have discovered some of the universe's first stars, and they may offer clues to how galaxies form. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and a ...