Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

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 ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

How could the first black holes have formed immediately after the Big Bang, even before the ignition of stars? This question ...

Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

I’ll never forget the first time I went hiking in Aspen. I was a young starting professor attending a workshop at the Aspen ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

A new theory proposes "universal consciousness" as a fundamental field shaping space, time, matter, and the emergence of ...

Sheldon Cooper speaks highly of his college education on The Big Bang Theory, but it was actually the spin-off Young Sheldon ...