The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

The far future of the cosmos may be less endless than it once appeared. New calculations place the decay of the universe’s ...

According to the team, the new approach can explain how the universe's initial inflation can naturally arise. But it comes ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

Gravity is by far the weakest of nature’s four fundamental forces, and physicists have spent decades asking a deceptively ...

What you think is a perfect reflection might be universe that is fundamentally different. When you look in mirror, and see what you think is a perfect reflection. You might be looking at universe ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

A quarter of a century ago a conjec­ture shook the world of theoretical physics. It had the aura of revelation. “At first, we had a magical statement ... almost out of nowhere,” says Mark Van ...