Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

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A new study broadens the horizon of knowledge about how matter behaves under extreme conditions and helps to solve some great unknowns about the origin of the universe. An international team of ...

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans. But while the existence of UHECRs has been ...

A comprehensive review explores how particles containing heavy quarks (known as charm and bottom hadrons) interact in a hot, dense environment called hadronic matter. The authors have published a ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Despite its spectacular birth, the ...

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

TRONDHEIM, Norway — Particles racing through space at nearly the speed of light pack energy millions of times greater than anything we can create on Earth. For decades, these cosmic bullets have ...

"It's astonishing to find such a strong radio signal at this distance." A vast cloud of energetic particles surrounding a cluster of galaxies that existed around four billion years after the Big Bang ...