For decades, it was assumed that the expansion of the universe was accelerating—a theory that won the Nobel Prize. Now, ...

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

Could reality be made of more dimensions than those we perceive? The question has consumed some of the most brilliant physics ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away.

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

A new study is implying that the universe may actually be slowing down and that the culmination of the decrease in dark ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...